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How to set an application to low priority traffic?

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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  • 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.
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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.
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