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Microsoft Teams from an operations perspective: media traffic and network requirements, call quality, client specifics, and how Teams interacts with VPNs, firewalls, and proxies.

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VPN Split Tunneling for Microsoft Teams: Routing Media Traffic Around the Tunnel

Teams calls over a VPN suffer from latency, jitter, and the detour through the VPN gateway. This article explains which Microsoft networks and ports handle media traffic, why IP-based split tunneling is superior to app exclusions, and how to implement it in consumer VPNs, WireGuard, OpenVPN, and enterprise clients.

August 26, 2026 Microsoft Teams 8 min read