URLs Used by Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education is built on a services-based architecture that requires communication from the application to external services on the internet. This architecture allows students to access new features such as the Immersive Reader and new lesson content. In order to allow communication with these external services, your school network will need to allow traffic between Minecraft Education and a set of service endpoints. Allowing the following set of URLs will allow access to these services that are integrated into the application itself.

List of all URLs used by Minecraft Education

This is the list of all the URLs used by Minecraft Education.

For more information on URLs, subdomains, and ports, see our full guide here. 

Note: If you are using SSL Decryption on a Chromebook, any URL that serves up certificates needs to be added to your bypass list. The article from Google has information here.

List of minimum URLs required for Minecraft Education

At a minimum, the Minecraft Education library needs access to services owned by Microsoft. It is recommended that all xboxlive.com subdomains be allowed to ensure the game runs smoothly. The PlayFab and XForge services deliver library content and RTEP is used to gather error reports and logs. Other services protect against future architecture changes like additional authentication calls or the introduction of new CDNs. If you’d still like to limit the number of services, you can just allow the URLs used by XForge.

This is the list of the minimum URLs Minecraft Education needs to run.

• https://xforge.xboxlive.com/
• https://xforgeassets001.xboxlive.com/
• https://xforgeassets002.xboxlive.com/

The URLs do not open your network to unwanted activity

Minecraft Education only uses services from reputable sources that have been audited for compliance with all relevant security and privacy standards.  The communications between Minecraft Education and these services is limited to data sharing between the application and the service and the services we use are generally not available for web traffic.  

The xboxlive.com and playfabapi.com services connect Minecraft Education to our content hosting service which allows for much quicker access to our instructional content.  Opening your network to these URLs allows authenticated communication to all Xbox services hosted on xboxlive.com. It does not allow access to public websites like xbox.com.