azure · WindowsVirtualDesktop

Microsoft Azure uses 7 prefixes for WindowsVirtualDesktop.

Short answer

Microsoft Azure lists these prefixes under “WindowsVirtualDesktop”. Microsoft publishes Azure’s ranges weekly as Service Tags: named groups such as AzureCloud, Storage, Sql or AzureFrontDoor.Frontend, each a list of prefixes. We import the global (non-regional) tags.

IPv4 prefixes5
IPv6 prefixes2
Regions in the first 100—
Fetched by peekip5 Nov 2026

Prefixes

PrefixRegion / locationService
172.183.252.22/32—WindowsVirtualDesktop
40.64.144.0/20—WindowsVirtualDesktop
51.5.0.0/16—WindowsVirtualDesktop
57.156.5.248/29—WindowsVirtualDesktop
57.156.73.192/28—WindowsVirtualDesktop
2603:1061:2010::/48—WindowsVirtualDesktop
2603:1061:2011::/48—WindowsVirtualDesktop
Showing 7 of 7 prefixes All prefixes (CSV)

What changed

No prefixes added or removed since we started tracking this list. Changes appear here the day after the provider publishes them.

Allowlist formats

nginx (first 5 prefixes)
allow 172.183.252.22/32;
allow 40.64.144.0/20;
allow 51.5.0.0/16;
allow 57.156.5.248/29;
allow 57.156.73.192/28;
deny all;
iptables (first 5 prefixes)
iptables -A INPUT -s 172.183.252.22/32 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 40.64.144.0/20 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 51.5.0.0/16 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 57.156.5.248/29 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 57.156.73.192/28 -j ACCEPT

Generate the full list from the CSV, and refresh it on a schedule: providers add and retire prefixes often.

Sources

  1. Microsoft Azure: published IP ranges · checked 5 Nov 2026
  2. Microsoft Azure documentation