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Configure Microsoft peering

Configure Microsoft peering

- The exam may test your knowledge of configuring Microsoft Peering in express route scenarios, so understanding the what, when, why and how will definitely be helpful for the exam. Let's start with a quick recap of the what. So, Microsoft Peering provides connectivity to Microsoft Online services, the public services, like Microsoft 365 and PSTN services to name a couple; establishing bi-directional connectivity between your WAN and Microsoft Cloud services through the Microsoft Peering routing domain. Now, you must connect to Microsoft Cloud services only over public IP addresses that are owned by you or your connectivity provider. And with that in mind, if your connectivity provider offers managed layer three services, you can simply ask them to enable Microsoft Peering for you and your work is done. Do also bear in mind: Microsoft verifies advertised public prefixes, the peer and customer autonomous system numbers or ASNs, that are assigned to your organization with the Internet…

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