CRM systems aren’t really my bag, but having spent the last year or so needing to be more familiar with SalesForce than I cared for (not a requirement in my new position!) I can sympathise with having information split across different systems. It is very common for...
O365
Network Assessment Tool Plus
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 🙂
Network Assessment Tool Plus – Processing
Post 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 now need to gather, process and import the...
Network Assessment Tool Plus – Running
Post 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 computer Make a new folder on the desktop...
Ignite, SfB, Teams and UCDay
So 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 Microsoft's annual IT Pro tech conference (Ignite)...
Community Q&A – What happens to me as MS focus more on SfBO : Answers round up 5
Overview/Introduction | Round up 1 | Round up 2 | Round up 3 | Round up 4 | Round up 5 As promised earlier in the week I'm delighted to have another great take on the O365 SfB onprem career conundrum from someone who is known as a bit of a rockstar developer in the...
Community Q&A – What happens to me as MS focus more on SfBO : Answers round up 4
Overview/Introduction | Round up 1 | Round up 2 | Round up 3 | Round up 4 | Round up 5 So it's taken me a little while to get the next couple of posts sorted but I’m delighted that this week I’ve got two responses ready to share and they are both from people who...
Community Q&A – What happens to me as MS focus more on SfBO : Answers round up 3
Overview/Introduction | Round up 1 | Round up 2 | Round up 3 | Round up 4 | Round up 5 Another week another round up of answers 🙂 You folks know the drill by now... I'm delighted this week to have some thoughts from Iain Smith, Head of Consulting for UK based...
Community Q&A – What happens to me as MS focus more on SfBO : Answers round up 2
Overview/Introduction | Round up 1 | Round up 2 | Round up 3 | Round up 4 | Round up 5 Next in my series of community opinion pieces on the sate of the market for Skype for Business & O365 skills. If you are coming to this post without the others you can see the...
