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Networking roadmap for Microsoft 365

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Microsoft 365 for enterprise includes collaboration and productivity cloud services, Microsoft Intune, and many identity and security services of Microsoft Azure. All of these cloud-based services rely on the security, performance, and reliability of connections from client devices over the Internet or dedicated circuits. To host these services and make them available to customers all over the world, Microsoft has designed a networking infrastructure that emphasizes performance and integration.

A crucial part of your Microsoft 365 onboarding is to ensure that your network and Internet connections are set up for optimized access. Configuring your on-premises network to access a globally distributed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud is different from a traditional network that is optimized for traffic to on-premises datacenters and a central Internet connection.

Use these articles to understand the key differences and to modify your edge devices, client computers, and on-premises network to get the best performance for your on-premises users.

Plan

In the planning phase of your networking implementation:

Deploy

In the deployment phase of your networking implementation:

Manage

In the management phase of your networking implementation:

Network equipment vendors

If you are a network equipment vendor, join the Microsoft 365 Networking Partner Program. Enroll in the program to build Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles into your products and solutions.

How Contoso did networking for Microsoft 365

See how the Contoso Corporation, a fictional but representative multi-national business, optimized their network devices and Internet connections for Microsoft 365 cloud services.

The Contoso Corporation.

Next step

Start your networking planning with the Microsoft 365 networking connectivity overview.