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Tobey Davies
Mar 12, 2018Copper Contributor
What is the domain "nrb.footprintdns.com"??
Hello Everyone
From 3/2/2018, when I access my SharePoint site the following certificate site? is displayed.
https://37CFD84CE79EF6104C98E018AE6ABD10.nrb.footprintdns.com
And request me to ...
- Jan 08, 2019
The domain nrb.footprintdns.com is owned by Microsoft and represents servers in Microsoft datacenters. It is used for telemetry purposes that comply with Microsoft privacy commitments that you can read about at: https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-trust-center-privacy. Data sent to this domain is used to identify network connectivity and performance issues and to support improvements to the service. We have plans to rename it to be more descriptive, and to publish it at the Office 365 IP Address and URL publishing site at http://aka.ms/o365ip. If you have any problems using Office 365 related to this, please raise a support incident so that we can assist at https://support.office.com/
Arthur Yee
Oct 02, 2018Copper Contributor
Any progress with knowing what this URL - nrb.footprintdns.com is for? Detecting it from user using o365 services.
Julian Knight
Oct 04, 2018Steel Contributor
No, nobody from Microsoft has bothered to reply. I strongly recommend blocking the domain. I can't find anything it impacts.