Whats new in Skype for Business Monitoring Tool V1.3?

03 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by Paul B in Lync 2013 Monitoring, PowerShell GUI, Powershell Scripts, Skype for Business, Skype for Business Monitoring, Skype for Business Tools, Tools, UC Sorted Tools

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Free Monitoring, Lync Tools, Monitoring, PowerShell GUI, Skype for Business Monitoring, Synthetic Transactions, Tools

A few months back a new pet project resulted in an application called Skype for Business Monitoring Tool. Simply stated this application is a series of synthetic transactions in a PowerShell wrapper. The tool will run a selection of tests then report the results to the local event log.

Shortly after that a reporting module was added. The reporting module will compile an email report covering the previous 24 hour cycle of tests. The report includes a success vs failure rate and colour codes the ratio either green, amber or red to indicate health for each test in question.

What’s new in V1.3?

The following features have been added:-

Alert emailing

This is an alert email that is generated at the end of a test cycle if any of the synthetic transactions fail. The email consist of the Event ID and description of the error (the format is rough at present but server its purpose well – a review of this is planned)

TIP

Since the FROM address isn’t checked for validity, I like to use this address to identify the Customer or Pool that’s reporting the issues. That way I can write an email rule that automatically deals with messages according to my required behaviour (eg escalate or also send to etc.). Of course you need to be sure that your email scrubbing policies allow these through.

More Tests

A total of 24 tests are now available, that equates to 12 new tests introduced in this release. These include:-

Group IM
Application Sharing
Persistent Chat
Data Conferencing
UCWA Conferencing
Web App Conferencing
Web App Anonymous Conferencing
Web Scheduler
XMPP
Audio Video Edge
Mobility IM
PSTN Peer-to-Peer

New “About”

A ReadMe.htm file now contains all the “About” information, version details, event ID references and notes. The ReadMe.htm file is also sent by email as the test email function

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What’s planned for VNext?

A new module that monitors and reports on the Skype Server roles. The items I plan to include are as follows:-

Skype related Services
CPU usage and peaks
Memory usage and peaks
Disk usage
Daily report on Skype related Event Log warnings and Errors

Please do chime in if you have any suggestions or feedback.

-Sorted

Using Lync User Manager – Video Tutorual

21 Saturday Feb 2015

Posted by Paul B in Uncategorized

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Lync Tools, Lync User Manager

Isn’t it funny how something that one creates seems so self explanatory…only to oneself.

And with that, I decided its best to make a Video of Lync User Manager in action.

Overview Of Lync User Manager

From a single window:-

Manage Moves, Adds Changes and Deletions for Lync and Unified Messaging in a single window.
Compare users
Match other user policies
Set Private Line
Set PIN’s
Move users between Pools