Source note · Voice for remote and home workers
Microsoft's reasons for keeping Teams off the VPN are that VPNs are usually not designed for real-time media, some do not support the UDP that Teams requires, they add a second layer of encryption, they hairpin traffic, and they can send traffic to a service front door further from the user.
Checked 2026-09-25
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Teams
- Subsystem
- network-planning
- Deployment
- multi-tenant
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- current as of 2026-09-25
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- Prepare your organization's network for Microsoft Teams — Microsoft (Microsoft Learn) · tier 2 current vendor documentation · Network optimization table > Configure split-tunnel VPN (Other reasons list)
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APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Voice for remote and home workers: source note remote-worker-voice-teams-vpn-problems. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/remote-worker-voice-teams-vpn-problems
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-remote-worker-voice-teams-vpn-problems,
title = {Voice for remote and home workers: source note remote-worker-voice-teams-vpn-problems},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/remote-worker-voice-teams-vpn-problems},
note = {Source note remote-worker-voice-teams-vpn-problems, checked 2026-09-25}
}