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Get an Office 365 Experience Your Users will Love

What does Microsoft recommend for Office 365? Direct internet connections. 1 Identify and differentiate Office 365 traffic From the Office ProPlus, to SharePoint, to Skype—you need to understand which apps you’re using and how much bandwidth they consume. This is the traffic you must optimize separately from other traffic. For the best user experience, Microsoft recommends direct-to-internet. Here are the four principles that describe it. 2 Egress network connections locally Send all your Office 365 app traffic directly to the internet locally and don’t route it through a central gateway. This reduces latency and MPLS costs, and provides the best performance for users. 3 Assess bypassing proxies 4 Avoid network hairpins For Office 365 traffic, Microsoft recommends bypassing your security appliances. Such appliances can hinder latency and performance, and can trigger costly throughput upgrades. Make sure your remote users go directly to Microsoft. VPN hairpins add far too much latency, which kills the user experience. Use Zscaler to enable your direct connections Direct internet connections are required for Office 365, but how can you secure them? Direct-to-internet means bypassing your security gateway, yet it’s impractical and far too costly to place security appliances at every branch. With Zscaler, you can get fast and secure connections to Office 365 and the internet, without appliances. Zscaler For your Office 365 traffic Deliver the best user experience with direct-to-internet. Office 365 Fully compliant with Microsoft’s recommendations for Office 365 connectivity Get faster connections for Office 365 apps, including latency-sensitive apps like Skype and SharePoint Scale elastically to user traffic demands and avoid the hassle of bandwidth planning Easily deployed, requiring no hardware and no costly appliance upgrades Global Peering Open Internet For your open internet traffic Secure the rest of your direct internet traffic with a full security stack that contains firewall, CASB, DLP, sandbox, and more. Access Control • Cloud Firewall • URL Filtering • Bandwidth Control • DNS Filtering Threat Prevention • IPS and Advanced • Antivirus Protection • DNS Security • Cloud Sandbox Data Protection • Data Loss Prevention • Cloud Apps (CASB) • File Type Controls
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