Microsoft has got a bit of a track record with some dodgy naming conventions in the past, and while overall, they seem to have got things pretty right with Teams there has long been a bit of a grey area around what term you...
Microsoft, back in 2016, released the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool for doing a basic check of connection quality to Skype for Business Online / Teams / O365 (see Randy's blog for more info). This tool gives you a Pass/Fail based on four network metrics (Packet Loss, Round Trip Time, Jitter, Packet Reorder) for the 90th percentile average of the time you ran the tool. I decided that while the tool is pretty helpful it could do so much more, so with a bit of PowerShell and a splash of PowerBI I've hopefully transformed its output into something richer and far more useful. Come explore your network with me :)
Here is the concluding part of the OCS to Lync migration video series. You can find Part1, Part2...
At work & home we have quite a few snom 7xx Lync phones deployed. I’m quite a fan of the snom devices & their Lync implementation particularly around things like directory search etc… With the newer snom UC Firmware it...
Microsoft has got a bit of a track record with some dodgy naming conventions in the past, and while overall, they seem to have got things pretty right with Teams there has long been a bit of a grey area around what term you...
Read MoreSo I need to come clean about what I’ve been up to during the last year or so… I’ve been quiet on the old socials and on the Teams scene for a little while now. You would be forgiven for thinking this was down to the fairly...
Read MoreNotes taken from the Ignite session – Call quality management for Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams Presented by William Looney and Troy Funk Key takeaways Microsoft provide “top down” and “bottom up” tooling for checking...
Read MoreNotes taken from the Ignite session – Plan your UC refresh correctly: Skype for Business on-premises vNext by Daniel Strader. Session summary So the key points here are: SfB on-prem will have another release This release...
Read More<Work in progress post – Sonus interview to come> I’ve been playing with a 360 degree camera, hit the full screen button for the full effect… [vrview...
Read MoreSo today the cat is out of the bag with regards to the future of Skype for Business and Teams (sort of).Check out this blog from Lori Wright (general manager for Microsoft Teams and Skype product marketing) – A new vision...
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Microsoft, back in 2016, released the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool for doing a basic check of connection quality to Skype for Business Online / Teams / O365 (see Randy’s blog for more info). This tool gives you a Pass/Fail based on four network metrics (Packet Loss, Round Trip Time, Jitter, Packet Reorder) for the 90th percentile average of the time you ran the tool.
I decided that while the tool is pretty helpful it could do so much more, so with a bit of PowerShell and a splash of PowerBI I’ve hopefully transformed its output into something richer and far more useful.
Come explore your network with me 🙂
Read MorePost series: Overview | Running the tool | Processing the data This post covers how to process and import the data into PowerBI that we gathered earlier in the Network Assessment Plus process Having run the Assessment Tool we...
Read MorePost series: Overview | Running the tool | Processing the data This post covers how to loop the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool using PowerShell for use later in the Network Assessment Plus process Saving the tool to your...
Read MoreSo if you are following industry news (and twitter!) there is a lot of speculation kicking around about the future of Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. One of the reasons for this is that we are building up to...
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