In this post I describe the CQD for Microsoft Teams and provide an high-level overview on its capabilities.
What’s the CQD? The call quality dashboard, short CQD, is a rich dashboard and reporting platform to check and ensure call quality metrics. Furthermore, it helps to analyze and to troubleshoot call quality if you drill down in reports and to figure out where you might have issues. Or you can just see what’s going on in your Microsoft 365 Phone System with Microsoft Teams.
In case you need to dig in deep in the depths of the reports you might also want to upload some network details regarding your physical location/s or endpoints. This can help you as well as Microsoft Support to troubleshoot issues, if required. For example, you can upload a CSV including:
| column name | column format | example |
| networkip | String | 10.10.1.0 |
| network name | String | HQ-Stuttgart |
| networkrange | Number | 24 |
| buildingname | String | HQ-Stuttgart-Office |
| ownershiptype | String | EriksLab |
| buildingtype | String | IT Operations |
| buildingofficetype | String | Administration |
| city | String | Stuttgart |
| zip code | String | 71178 |
| country | String | DE |
| state | String | Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| region | String | Stuttgart |
| insidecorp | Boolean | 1 |
| expressroute | Boolean | 0 |
| VPN (optional) | Boolean | 0 |
So, depending on your uploaded data you can view the reports either without or with the enriched data input.
Conclusion, opinion and summary
The CQD is a helpful means to support analyzing and troubleshooting call quality-related issues. They reporting data can help to find out what’s not working well and maybe even give you the why to mitigate the issue. E.g. bad connectivity, bad device or else. Additional, depending on your organization’s size and requirements you could also get the data to PowerBI for more customized views and reporting, if needed. The CQD is very powerful and supportive to resolve call quality issue. In case you are utilizing Microsoft Teams especially calling capabilities, I think, it is a very good platform which can support your call quality troubleshooting.
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