Skype.Portals
Description
This indicates an attempt to access Skype's portals.Skype's portals are used by Skype, Skype for Business (Microsoft Lync) and Microsoft Teams.
Note: To whitelist any of Skype, Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams, set "Skype.Portals" to Allow/Monitor and any of the 3 to Allow/Monitor (according to desired policy) and the others to Block. For Skype, set Microsoft.Authentication to Allow/Monitor in addition to Skype.
Affected Products
Skype
Impact
Network bandwidth consumption
Technology
Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device
Behavior
- Reasonable
Application Dependencies
Default Ports
- TCP/80
- TCP/443
- UDP/443
- UDP/3478-3481
- UDP/50000-60000