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PaulAndrew
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Jan 08, 2019

Why are some Office 365 network endpoints provided as URLs only with no IP Addresses?

I get asked this from time to time where people will point to some of the Default categorized URLs at http://aka.ms/o365ip. People will tell me that their customer uses a firewall which can only be c...
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Petri-X
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Apr 29, 2020

Hi PaulAndrew 

 

I re-read your documentation about the categories on here: New Office 365 endpoint categories. There you are listing three categories "Optimize", "Allow", or "Default".

 

At the moment (when doing a bit guessing work) the Live Event service belongs to category "Default". That means the traffic on that category is handled like regular "ping".

 

But if you take a look for category "optimize" and its description it says: "Optimize endpoints are required for connectivity to every Office 365 service and represent over 75% of Office 365 bandwidth, connections and volume of data." In some terms we could thing that Live Event and Streaming service are not utilizing the most of the bandwidth, but fact is also, when you are having large Live Event that is requiring bandwidth from companies. Yes, it is not as intensive than RTP (Real Time Protocol) traffic is, but I believe companies would get benefits if these two services could be updated to "optimize". Think about e.g. VPN split tunneling.

 

I lifted also a User Voice: Change Live Events (and Streaming service) categories from Default to Optimize  for this, but expectations are not so high 🙂

 

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