Microsoft 365 – What is “cloud.microsoft”

Hello All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today I got update in message center – Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – November 2024.

So try to understand the details about domain “cloud.microsoft” and hence this article.

Background

• As Microsoft cloud services have grown over the years, the domain space Microsoft live on has grown as well – into the hundreds
• This high number of domains has created increasing challenges for end user navigation, administrative simplicity, and the development of cross-app experiences
• Microsoft started to reduce this fragmentation. They bought authenticated, user-facing Microsoft 365 apps and services onto a single, consistent and cohesive domain – cloud.microsoft.

Details

• cloud.microsoft is an Internet domain owned and operated by Microsoft.
• This domain is specifically dedicated to Microsoft cloud products and managed to the highest standards of security.
• It is designed to offer a single and unified home for Microsoft 365 apps and services.
• In our organization we need to make sure that the cloud.microsoft domain isn’t blocked.
• cloud.microsoft resides under the .microsoft top-level domain
• We can trust that any website or app that ends with cloud.microsoft is an official Microsoft product or service. 

Advantages of using cohesive domain – cloud.microsoft

• Consolidating authenticated user-facing Microsoft 365 experiences onto a single domain will help us in several ways.
• For end users, it will streamline the overall experience by reducing sign-in prompts, redirects, and delays when navigating across apps.
• For admins, it will drastically reduce the complexity of the allow-lists. This reduction will help us to keep tenant stay secure.
• For all our customers, it will create a foundation for better integration across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. This change streamlines development. It also improves the performance of cross-app experiences.

Microsoft product and service URLs

Service	URL
Microsoft 365	m365.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat	m365.cloud.microsoft/chat
Microsoft Excel	excel.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft PowerPoint	powerpoint.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Word	word.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Outlook	outlook.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft 365 Service Health Status Page	status.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Admin Center	admin.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Loop	loop.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Mesh	mesh.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft OneNote	onenote.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Planner	planner.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Setup	setup.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Sway	sway.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Viva Engage	engage.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Viva Goals	goals.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Viva Home	viva.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Viva Insights	insights.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Viva Learning	learning.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Viva Pulse	pulse.cloud.microsoft

Have a wonderful day ahead!!! Thanks for reading !!!