To maintain effective Microsoft Teams performance, you must first understand two things: the metrics that define an optimal Microsoft Teams performance and where your Teams performance currently ranks against those metrics. By establishing a Microsoft Teams service quality baseline for your business, you can determine what is normal in terms of performance, and what isn’t. More importantly, you can identify where and when your focus should be to improve the overall user experience.

It’s one thing to be using Microsoft Teams. It’s entirely different to have your users running Teams efficiently. From dropped calls to lags in response time to jittery video connections – Teams isn’t without its daily problems. And yet, you’re being held responsible to not just make sure Teams is up and running but to also improve the quality of the user experience and overall business productivity.

The effects of remote work go beyond an employee trying to remain productive and stay connected to their team. The organization’s IT team must deal with a host of challenges that stem from trying to keep everyone effectively connected to a network when there are things such as different internet service providers and routing paths to contend with. Another challenge faced by IT is the influx of ‘poor call quality issues because of the varying internet connections, equipment setups, etc.

Microsoft have announced a new management pack for Office 365 – M365! It completely replaces the Office 365 management pack and is packed with new capabilities. Aakash Basavaraj, Program Manager at Microsoft, and Sameer Mhaisekar, Technical Evangelist at SquaredUp, joined Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, to reveal the new capabilities of the M365 management pack and the accompanying dashboard pack created for SquaredUp.