The recent COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak has caused many customers to rapidly enable, or proactively plan for the bulk of their employees working from home. We’ve also seen similar queries from customers looking for best practice whilst rapidly enabling their Office 365 benefits, Free Teams plans or free 6 month E1 trial recently announced to rapidly roll out Teams to allow their business to continue to function and allow users to collaborate effectively without being in the Office. Over the past few weeks, Microsoft, and more specifically the Office 365 Network team have seen a large influx of questions from customers around how best to optimize their Office 365 connectivity as they work diligently to plan for a large amount of their userbase suddenly working from home. Paul & The Office 365 Network Connectivity & Performance team Please continue to provide feedback via the comments section on the articles above and we'll endeavour to respond as quickly as possible and continue to improve the guidance as needed.

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Special thanks to those partners for their commitment and rapid delivery of this guidance for our mutual customers. Cisco (An圜onnect), Palo Alto (GlobalProtect) and F5 Networks (BIG-IP APM) are the first to publish, with more to come over the coming days. As with this article, we've aimed to provide simple and priority driven guidance to help customers deliver solutions to this problem quickly and securely in this current climate.įurther we've reached out to key VPN partners who have rapidly responded to provide step by step guides on how to configure Office 365 split tunneling/Forced Tunneling with exceptions, within their particular implementation. Given the enormous popularity of this subject in the current crisis, we've worked hard over the past few weeks to improve and expand the guidance in this article and as a result, we've moved the Office 365 VPN connectivity guidance to a new home which is linked below. A genuine thank you all for your feedback around this article.

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