Notes 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 is geared towards enterprise customers, SMB may...
Teams
Teams as the future of Skype for Business
So 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 for intelligent communications in Office...
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)...
