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Lync Online was released in 2010. Since end of 2013 you can access nice reports in the interface. However they are a little bit limited and not very flexible. Here is the list of reports you can find in UI:
Peer to peer session reports:
• Total number of P2P sessions
• Number of IM sessions
• Number of audio sessions
• Number of video sessions
• Number of application sharing sessions
• Number of file transfer sessions
Conference reports:
• Total number of conferences
• Number of IM conferences
• Number of AV conferences
• Number of application sharing conferences
• Number of web conferences
• Number of telephony conferences
Microsoft provides PowerShell cmdlets and the REST reporting web service to access those reports. Here is a list of what you can find:
PowerShell commands require some scripting knowledge to be used but remain very accessible. Rest Web Service is more oriented for programming in C# or VB#.
PowerShell allows to see user activities and voice usage or different metrics. First you have to open a remote PowerShell session to be sure that you can monitor your Lync Online. You could use this script to connect:
cred = Get-Credential (provide your Lync Online administrator credentials)
$lyncSession = New-CsOnlineSession -Credential $cred
Import-PSSession $lyncSession -AllowClobber
Now you’re connected on your tenant, you can pass some command. Here are some examples:
• If you wish to see the amount of active users on your Lync architecture since 3 months use this :
Get-CsActiveUserReport -ReportType Monthly -StartDate 06/01/2014 -EndDate 09/30/2014
You will get the following output:
• If you need to know how long meeting conferences have been used in August you can use a script like this :
Get-CsAVConferenceTimeReport -ReportType Monthly -StartDate 08/01/2014 -EndDate 08/30/2013
• If you need to have the time P@P sessions has been used between Lync users in the cloud use this:
Get-CsP2PAVTimeReport -ReportType Monthly -StartDate 06/01/2014 -EndDate 06/30/2014
You will get this report:
For each command you can specify the start and end date aswell as the type of report: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.
• If you need to know all possible commands available you can use this command:
Get-Command –Module <LyncOnlineModuleName>
Of course not everone is online and you cannot get any information on the system or the response times. If you need to test a good solution for Lync On-premises or if you want to see the response time between your On-premises communication system and your cloud, you can try the GSX offer for Lync: http://web.gsx.com/gsx-monitor-analyzer-for-microsoft-lync
Fully agentless, GSX Monitor & Analyzer acts as a Robot User, sitting on a virtual machine or any laptop to automatically discover, display, troubleshoot and report on the health of your Lync environments by using applications as would an administrator. GSX Monitor & Analyzer provides pinpoint alerts that enable administrators to anticipate and avoid any system outages
