If you manage Microsoft Teams, the Best Practice Configurations dashboard in the Teams admin center gives you a faster way to find and fix configuration issues that can affect meeting quality.
https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/best-practice-dashboard
The dashboard is built to help admins monitor meeting-related best practices across the environment. It highlights common causes of meeting quality, such as correct ports and protocols being used, outdated Teams clients, DNS resolution failures, local and cloud proxy bypass configuration, and VDI optimization. This helps you see patterns to allow you can focus on broad issues affecting many users, not just one report at a time.
Why should you start using this today?
- You don’t just see that something is wrong—you see the issue paired with recommendations to resolve.
- Issues are grouped by location and network segment, which makes it easier to spot systemic problems.
- It reduces manual investigation, as issue details are shown based on location and IP.
- It helps track improvement over time. As you address recommendations, the dashboard shows trends so you can monitor progress.
- It helps admins keep an eye on their tenant ecosystem proactively. If the configurations are correct, it reduces the chances of users facing meeting quality issues.
A few examples of when to use it:
1. When users start mentioning Teams meeting quality issues
If users in a specific city are reporting poor Teams meeting experiences, the dashboard can help you quickly see whether that location has a high percentage of traffic using TCP instead of UDP, outdated clients, proxy routing, or DNS resolution failures. Instead of investigating each complaint separately, you can identify whether the issue is tied to a shared network path, public IP range, or regional setup and work the root cause first.
2. When you want to clean up outdated Teams clients
The dashboard shows locations with a high percentage of streams coming from Teams desktop clients more than three months old. Rather than manually gathering version data across the environment, you can immediately see the most affected locations and target update efforts where they will have the biggest impact.
3. When network or security changes may be affecting Teams traffic
If your organization uses VPN split tunneling, proxies, DNS controls, or VDI, the dashboard helps surface where those configurations may be hurting Teams media performance. You can move from “something changed and meetings feel worse” to a focused remediation plan based on the locations and traffic patterns flagged in the dashboard.
4. When you need to show progress
The dashboard includes trend views and CSV export, it can support conversations with networking, endpoint management, and security teams. You spend less effort building reports by hand and more time aligning the right teams on the next action.
If your team supports Microsoft Teams meetings, this dashboard is a good feature to start using now. It gives you a more structured way to find high-impact issues, follow Microsoft recommendations, and spend less time chasing symptoms.
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