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Dynamically update Microsoft Office URLs and IPs

Benzito — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:32:10 GMT

Does anyone have any suggestions to dynamically update Microsoft Office 365 (including Sharepoint and Teams) URLs and IPs? Having to update a list of IPs and URLs is impractical and time consuming. Microsoft keeps updating their backend infrastructure through various CDNs, and having to update this has been time-consuming and tedious. How are other users managing this? With MineMeld "deprecated" to GitHub, is there a better option than MineMeld or is that still the best option?

Re: Dynamically update Microsoft Office URLs and IPs

PavelK — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:01:09 GMT

Hello @Benzito

Palo Alto has hosted EDL for this purpose: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/blogs/edl-hosting-service-helps-to-safely-enable-microsoft-365/ba-p/410972

It is automatically updated without manual intervention.

Kind Regards

Pavel

Re: Dynamically update Microsoft Office URLs and IPs

Adrian_Jensen — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:15:52 GMT

@PavelK

Interesting. Is there a way to add an EDL list to the GlobalProtect client gateway config for split tunneling IPs? I can add static/FQDN address objects and address groups to the tplit tunnel access route include/exclude lists, but the EDL objects do not come up. Likewise I can't add an EDL object to an address group either.

Re: Dynamically update Microsoft Office URLs and IPs

BPry — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:07:57 GMT

@Adrian_Jensen,

There's currently not a way to use an EDL for either purpose. Microsoft actually already publishes optimization URLs and IPs that you can use that account for the majority of 365 traffic. That information is available HERE and is really all you should need in this regard. Microsoft makes a point to keep these the same so you don't have to always be on the lookup to keep them updated.

Re: Dynamically update Microsoft Office URLs and IPs

Benzito — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:43:33 GMT

Many thanks, for those great and helpful answers!