This is simply a link shortener URL.
The aka.ms domain is owned by Microsoft as shown in the who.is entry. You could provide this information to your network security people and see if that is enough to allow the exclusion.
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Is
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_enterprise.exe
safe?
I can't access anything from Microsoft anymore because https://aka.ms/ is blocked behind my company firewall.
What is https://aka.ms/?
Why did Microsoft start putting all MSDN downloads here?
VS 2022 is here. Why?
This is simply a link shortener URL.
The aka.ms domain is owned by Microsoft as shown in the who.is entry. You could provide this information to your network security people and see if that is enough to allow the exclusion.
Hi @flagrant99 ,
https://aka.ms/...
is a hyperlink/URL shortener from Microsoft. Only Microsoft employees can create this short hyperlinks/URLs.
In my opinion it could be considered as safe
.
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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten
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