Azure Expressroute For Office 365

Azure Expressroute For Office 365. Once ExpressRoute for Office 365 becomes available you will be able to access both Azure and Office 365 on one network to ensure you get the same availability guarantee data privacy and control over performance that Harper Collins was able to realize. Our vision is to provide private connectivity to any Microsoft cloud service.

Through a supported cloud exchange co-location provider an Ethernet point-to-point connection provider or through an MPLS. However you first need to open a support ticket on the Azure portal to provide the prefixes you intend to advertise to Microsoft. Trey Research plans to use Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 and recognizes that some traffic such as traffic destined for content delivery networks wont be able to route over the ExpressRoute for Office 365 connection.

Azure ExpressRoute isnt required for a successful Office 365 deployment and can even make for a bad experience under certain circumstances.

We expect to roll out ExpressRoute for Office 365 in the third quarter of 2015. Weve been coordinating with Office 365 and Skype for Business to provide a similar ExpressRoute experience and this is now generally available. If you look at the Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365 support page youll see this key line buried in the first paragraph. Azure was the first Microsoft cloud service supported by ExpressRoute.