Hi all,
I hope someone can finally clear things up for me because I can't finde any useful help in the internet. I want to know how we can set certain routing rules for Skype for business Clients.
Let me start of first with our Network environment. We use the Office 365 Enterprise E3, where the SfB is also included. We don't have a SfB Server, we use the online hosted. Now we have 5 office sites around the world which are almost all connected with
MPLS (VPN), 2 sites only have internet connection.
What we try to achieve is that when colleagues in our offices site try to communicate with each other (Call/IM/Screensharing), that the SfB Clients 1st try directly to connect over the internal network or via MPLS to other sites and if not possible, then
go via default Gateway over the internet.
Trough certain changes in our network, we got it to work almost the way we need it. SfB Clients seem to work this way described above per default. We set default gateways pointing to the internet, so if an internal connection is not possible, it goes this
way.
Now we are standing in front of 2 problems. 1st we are not able to route the SfB clients over certain internet connections (we have more than one at certain sites because of failover and bandwith). The 2nd Problem we have, we notice that when colleagues
connect to a SfB Meeting via Webscheduler, even if the colleagues are at the same site, all SfB Clients connect over the internet and ignore the direct way via internal network.
I've found a SfB Support Manual that listed over 100 IPs (!!) for SfB Online Servers to be added to as a routing rule, if we want to accomplish what we need. Is this really the only way?
Here the link: https://support.office.com/de-de/article/URLs-und-IP-Adressbereiche-von-Office-365-8548a211-3fe7-47cb-abb1-355ea5aa88a2?ui=de-DE&rs=de-DE&ad=DE&fromAR=1
Has anyone the same issue and can clear me up on how we can solve this? I would appreciate that very much!
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards
Michael
