Microsoft® Lync Server 2010 Unleashed

Introduction to the Dashboard

The biggest change and welcome addition to the Monitoring Server reports page is the Dashboard. The Dashboard is broken up into four distinct areas or panes: System Usage, Per User Call Diagnostics, Call Reliability Diagnostics, and Media Quality Diagnostics. By default, the Dashboard shows this week and a six-week view. However, a monthly view is also available by clicking a link in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Table 7.1 shows System Usage, which is the first section. Although many of the fields are self-explanatory, they are useful for at-a-glance looks at the environment. For example, the total A/V Conference minutes item is great for back-of-the-napkin ROI on savings Lync Server provides overly outsourced ...