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How to set an application to low priority traffic?

SebastianRoessiger

Is it possible to set an application to low priority?

background:

We have about 40 office 2013 home & business Installations. This version is unable to get the updates from WSUS.

So they load the updates directly from Microsoft each month and fill up internet traffic. Last month e.g. 1.5GB per client.

If other users want to use internet at the same time, it's realy slow.

As a workaround we have throttled MS Office 365 app to a certain limit. 

Is there a possibility to say MS Office 365 app only can use the bandwith when it is not used by other apps?



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    Hi, Sebastian, and welcome to the UTM Community!

    I haven't run across this before, but are you certain that it's Office 365 traffic you want to limit? I suspect that it's regular HTTPS download traffic instead.Have you looked at reporting for that day to confirm what the traffic is?

    Cheers - Bob
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    Yes, that's the problem. It's the application MS Office 365 but it belongs to HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

    So do you mean, when we throttle the app, it throttles whole HTTP/HTTPS traffic?

    Is it maybe possible to set requests to the office download-servers e.g. *.microsoft.com domain to low priority?
    So we can filter the Office download traffic from normal web usage?

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    There's no way to do this for inbound traffic unless you only have a single internal network without a DMZ.

    There is the possibility of configuring a Download Throttling rule that only applies after a certain number of bytes have been surpassed. In the 'Advanced' section of your Traffic Selector, check 'Amount of data sent/received' and "More than" the amount of Office 365 traffic on a busy, non-update day.

    Cheers - Bob
    PS You're right that a Traffic Selector based on the Office 365 application does not affect other HTTP/S traffic.