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Guybrush
Aug 13, 2023Copper Contributor
VPN Split Tunneling
I work for an organisation of roughly 70 people. Around 50 of those people use Linux (Ubuntu 22.04). We use OpenVPN on all devices (Linux, macOS and Windows). The incidence of Teams-related glitches,...
Ed Woodrick
Aug 14, 2023Iron Contributor
Absolutely use split tunnel!
Don't worry about the Teams addresses, just send Corp traffic to the Corp network and the remainder to the Internet. That's a pretty common solution these days.
VPN requires your traffic to get encrypted, slowing it down. And then routing to the office adds at least two hop and possibly going over a slower link.
But most importantly, you don't get the benefit of geoDNS. If a user was in Europe and your office in US, that's an obnoxiously slow route as opposed to the Europe use jumping on Microsoft network in one or two hops and taking extremely fast connectivity to your tenant