As we continue to see Microsoft Teams usage skyrocket, now more than ever, users are depending on Microsoft Teams service excellence to maintain productivity. But it can be challenging to deliver a reliable user experience in today’s modern workplace. There are many factors in the IT environment impacting Microsoft Teams performance, and IT teams typically don’t have full visibility into them, or the service quality delivered to end users.

Legendary wine and spirit merchants Berry Brothers & Rudd arm their IT team with deep Microsoft Teams visibility to speed issue resolution and deliver an exceptional user experience. Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) is a family-run British wine and spirits merchant founded in London in 1698. Over the years, the company has grown to include six offices worldwide, including Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

IT silos, which originated from operational processes that made sense in an on-premise world are still a fact today. It’s easy to understand how these silos, which segregate and isolate IT data and operations from other points in the infrastructure came about.

As Teams Phone becomes the norm in the Enterprise space, managing the quality of service delivery and user satisfaction, whether it’s cloud or connected to the PSTN, is mission critical. Teams PSTN calls are used for just about every type of meeting as well as for Contact Centers, Customer service, town halls and client pitches. Because of this ubiquitous usage, Enterprise IT needs analytics to understand how this service is performing for users and when problems are occurring.

Today’s organizations are adapting office spaces and technology to meet the needs of a hybrid workforce. Microsoft is leading the way, bridging the gap between people working remotely and those in the office with the Microsoft Teams Meeting Room solution that allows everyone to be seen, heard, and fully participate from anywhere.

Vitrolife Saves More than 10,000 Hours of Microsoft Teams Troubleshooting with Vantage DX Sweden-based Vitrolife has approximately 1,200 employees spread across 20 countries worldwide. In their hybrid workplace, the IT team felt as if they were working with a blindfold on when it came to figuring out the source of a problem impacting Microsoft Teams performance.

With so many organizations focused on locking down environments, protocols like ICMP get immediately blocked without first weighing out the benefits.

Microsoft Teams users, whether they use peer-to-peer calls, meetings, or PSTN Telephony very often switch from their laptop to their mobile and expect reliable call quality on all devices. Monitoring and ensuring call quality for Microsoft Teams users, in general, is already challenging at times. But when it comes to Microsoft Teams mobile calling, there is added complexity for IT teams.

It is no secret that for IT teams, troubleshooting Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams issues takes time, and more often than not, the culprit is not even Microsoft.

In late 2021, Microsoft published an article regarding the connectivity principles for securely managing Microsoft 365 traffic in order to get the best possible performance. Take me to the Article: Microsoft 365 Network Connectivity Principles >> In the section focused on avoiding network hairpins, Microsoft states that as a general rule, the shortest and most direct route/call flow between the user and their closest Microsoft 365 endpoint will offer the best performance.