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New Skype for Business on Mac Insider build available (16.13.168)
Can you expand on
"Monitor the quality of your audio and video calls If you are on macOS Sierra or later, your admin can monitor the Quality of Service (QoS) of your audio and video calls to keep your service running smoothly." What does this mean?
I take it this is purely reporting on how the various media streams are marked for QOS?
Where is the data exposed? Is this via get-csusersession as I can't see anything in "Dimensions and measures available in Call Quality Dashboard"
While this data will be very useful, I am sure you have heard before if the client could mark for QOS..
Phil.
- AlistairKeay1Dec 08, 2017Brass Contributor
Thanks for the reply. Two follow up items
1. Are you saying if Set-CsMediaConfiguration -EnableQoS $True, the MAC client will mark.
The actual DSCP value coming from Set-CsUCPhoneConfiguration -VoiceDiffServTag 46
2. As far as I was aware with SFB Online, the ability to change EnableQoS setting isn't possible. Certainly set-CSmediaconfigration is an on premise only command. Any advice for online deployments?
Regards
- Phillip GardingDec 08, 2017Former EmployeeLet me research this and get back to you.
Phil.- Phillip GardingDec 14, 2017Former Employee
Alistair Keay - Sorry for the delay in responding. I've had various discussions with our engineering team to get the full picture on the QoS support. Here is the full story, with links to documentation:
On-premises customers need to enable QoS marking for Mac and other non-Windows platforms by setting the EnableQoS property as documented here in these topics:
- Plan network requirements for Skype for Business 2015
- Enabling QoS in Lync Server 2013 for devices that are not based on Windows
Online customers should already have this property enabled automatically, so no action is needed to enable marking.
When the app installed and EnableQoS property enabled (as needed), audio and video network traffic will be marked with the DSCP values documented here: ExpressRoute and QoS in Skype for Business Online. Note that only voice and video traffic are marked from Mac apps, and the DSCP values are not customizable.