T he list of Office 365 URLs and IP address ranges can be found here –> When setting up access to Office 365 your security policies might require firewall openings for the different Office 365 which is a pretty long list. NOTE: Deploying a VDI/RDSH solution in Azure has also shown to improve the performance on Office 365 Applications such as load time and overall end-user experience since it provides lower latency connectivity to Office 365 endpoints. This service is available for OneDrive and Exchange which you can read more about here –> ( which requires a minimum of 500 uers) You can also read more about supported regions here –>
Office 365 also has a Multi-geo service which allows you to store data closer to your users if they are in another geographic region. When using Office 365 data will be available in multiple regions across depending on where you set up your first subscription ( You can see where your data will be stored here –> ) The distance between your end-users with the Office applications and Office 365 services is important, if this distance is too far away it will affect the end-user experience. All these different services come from different datacenters and having multiple endpoints which Skype for Business, Outlook, and OneDrive use to connect and utilize the different services. However, this is not the case with Office 365 where you now have the data stored in Microsoft’s own datacentres and now having the applications installed on end-user devices which connects to these services from miles away. It is always common best practice to have the apps and the data as close as possible to get the best end-user experience and performance.
#OFFICE 365 OUTLOOK STUCK ON PROCESSING WINDOWS#
The article itself focuses on the deployment of Office 365 ProPlus on a VDI/RDSH environment but also applies to regular Windows endpoints.ĭeployment toolkit Office365: (Which now supports 2019)
A lot has changed since I first wrote this article back in 2015 and updates it in 2016 and therefore I decided to rewrite the article to make it a bit clearer and give a bit more advice into each section. This is an updated article on the old one which is referenced here.