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William Looney
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Dec 08, 2017

Annoucement: Updated Network Assessment Tool released on 12/8 - added network connectivity checks

Hi,   I'm happy to announce we have just released an updated Network Assessment Tool for Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams. Download link is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details...
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rovert506's avatar
rovert506
Iron Contributor
Jan 19, 2018

William Looney - greatly appreciate the update.  Any rough ETA on when we can expect the fix?  Weeks?  A month?  Longer?

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William Looney
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Jan 19, 2018
Its high priority on our list to get this release updated to address this and a couple other items of feedback we've received. I am not committing to a specific ETA or date, but I'm aiming for week or two provided everything goes well.
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    rovert506
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 07, 2018

    William Looney

    Question - Any update on new version ETA?

     

    Additional issue below:

    The "/connectivitycheck" param appears to query for hosts in five domains:

    *.dc.trouter.io
    *.msg.skype.com
    *.broker.skype.com
    *.cc.skype.com
    *.conv.skype.com

     

    Problems with this are as follows:

    1. The domains bolded black are only listed as "Required" for Teams on the Office365 URL/IP support page.  There is no mention at all of these domains for Skype4B.  For organizations that adhere to strict DNS recursion configurations based off the Office365 URL/IP support page, when they are not deploying Teams and only Skype4B, the "/connectivitycheck" param flat out does not work.
      • Note:  The network assessment feature still works - albeit with the caveats listed in this thread - so that remains unchanged.
    2. The domain bolded red is not listed anywhere on the Office365 URL/IP support page.  For organizations that adhere to strict DNS recursion configurations based off the Office365 URL/IP support page, this domain will not be available since it is not documented.
      • Note:  This domain isn't even listed anywhere in the RSS feed, either.

     

    I cannot overstate how disappointing and frustrating it is for partners and customers to have to deal with these issues.  Even more frustrating is the fact that we're now nearing two months since the version was released with no updates to fix the initial issues.

     

    Please, please, PLEASE, get these issues (both technical and documentation) fixed ASAP.

    • Mark Garza's avatar
      Mark Garza
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 20, 2018

      Opened a ticket with MSP and pressing on this question.

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        Mark Garza
        Copper Contributor
        Mar 12, 2018

        Microsoft has updated their Monthly URL and IP addresses for O365 to include *.cc.skype.com. This replaces any reference to *.broker.skype.com showing up with the SFBNA tool 1.1 There were no changes to network ranges for Teams.

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    rovert506
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 19, 2018
    10-4. Thanks for letting me know!
    • Philippe Piquereau's avatar
      Philippe Piquereau
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 02, 2018

      Same case as Trevor

      Maybe a tool that may become useful after some update one day ?

      or another tool for network assessment is in preparation somewhere ?

       

      By the way, I notice there are plenty of Microsoft tools checking O365 needs, but I'm not sure if one is really working. If there is one to use, which one is it as I'm lost between all tools that are not working, deprecated, abandoned, ... ?