On-Premises Diagnostics for Skype for Business Server Are Now Available

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On-Premises Diagnostics for Skype for Business Server version 1.1.2008.31001 has just been released

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Bug: Returning an explicit 'bad password or username' when Skype for Business Online PowerShell credentials are incorrect
• New!: Add Skype for Business Online PowerShell Multi Factor Authentication support

 What's planned for the next releases (coming soon)

• New scenario: Exchange integration is not working
• New scenario: Presence subscription and IM delays (Performance)
• New scenario: Modern authentication not working
• New scenario: Skype for Business Server Deployment Best Practices Analyzer

On-Premises Diagnostics for Skype for Business Server version 1.1.2008.05001 has just been released

Description

1.1.2008.05001 is a general maintenance release that contains enhancements, and bug fixes. A few of the specific issues that have been fixed in this release are listed below. The majority of customer-reported issues, reproducible system errors, have been corrected. Applying this maintenance release is recommended for all users.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Bug: SFB Server Frontend Service not starting - Fixed a problem that certificate warnings were incorrectly displayed as errors when SQL was stopped
• Bug: Fixed Test-CsDatabase cmdlet generating a false positive error
• New!: Skype for Business Server Frontend service is not starting scenario - Added new analyzer to check DNS records
• New!: Add progress bar to all Skype for Business scenarios
• Bug: Fixed error message when On-Premises and Online allowed domains lists didn't match
• Bug: Fixed an issue when spawning admin PowerShell instance, Skype for Business Server OPD switches were not honored

 What's planned for the next releases (coming soon)

• Feature: Multi factor authentication
• New scenario: Exchange integration is not working
• New scenario: Presence subscription and IM delays (Performance)
• New scenario: Modern authentication not working
• New scenario: Skype for Business Server Deployment Best Practices Analyzer

Thanks to Mike McIntyre for great contribution to this new release.

Tool looks really nice. I hope it will cover in near future additional scenarios, like voice or presence problems.

Thank Petri-X and Benoit_Hamet for providing feedback. Please see below regarding your questions/feedback:

- This tool needs to be executed from local frontend due some technical requirements. In the background performs remote PowerShell connection to edge to validate some edge specific rules. Tools checks if SFB online module is installed otherwise will flag that requirement (for scenarios that require SFB online module)

- Regarding MFA support that will be available in our next release (nice catch)

- Regarding set-CSExternalAccessPolicy please share output and your configuration so we can review (pop-sfbsupport@microsoft.com is already fully functional)

- Additional logging of activities when the diag scripts are running is written to the event viewer at 'Applications and Services Logs' -> OPDLog.  For more details, check out the following: https://github.com/onpremdiag/SfBServer/blob/master/docs/TelemetryData.md.

And as response for myself 🙂

[-] Determine if Skype for Business Frontend Server role is installed on local machine
        [-] Detection : Skype for Business Server Frontend role is not installed. This usually indicates that this not a Skype for Business Server frontend machine.
        [-] Action : The diagnostics script must be run on a Skype for Business Server Frontend.

But is it really mandatory...? 

It would be interesting to see how does it work, but after Easter 🙂

Did I misread it, or where it should be running? On-prem workstation or server? Outside network?

Support for MFA is highly appreciated in here as well. Or can I e.g. open the sessions to tenant using SfB online module, and then run this?

Do you have any requirements needed to run this? Does it run by its own, or is the some PS modules required as well? Found this: SfB OPD Readme 

You seems to be marking (on your example) with an error if "Remote User Access is disabled" on Edge pool. But you were analyzing federation issue. On set-CSExternalAccessPolicy have different configurations for remote use and federations. Or did I misunderstood this somehow, as I have not tested this yet? 🙂

Whoops, thanks Benoit_Hamet fixed a typo in the mailto: link

Thanks for the other feedback - good suggestions we'll pass on to team and follow up.  

Edit to add: looks like our feedback email address hasn't fully replicated through our email systems yet, for now please add feedback in the comments section.  Will update when it is ready to go.  

As of 4/11/20 the feedback e-mail address is working, thanks again for bringing that to our attention!

The provide feedback link is a mailto to an email address which does not exist

As such can only provide here:

* can you please add logging of activities when the diag scripts are running, or at least to save the results. If you hit enter at the end without copying, the results are lost

* MFA support; it seems the way you are gathering the credentials to logon to O365 services (when using the hybrid scenario) does not support MFA

Looks like a really useful tool!