Topic Last Modified: 2010-12-08

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 communications software introduces several features that enhance Monitoring Server for return on investment (ROI) analysis, asset management, and operational monitoring. These new features include:

• Richer Reporting, including Dashboard View
  
  Monitoring Server takes advantage of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services to provide richer reporting on system usage for ROI analysis, voice quality for diagnostics scenarios, and IP phone and media device asset management.
  
  A dashboard presents an aggregation of these reports, proactively informing administrators about usage trends and the health of the deployment.
  
  
• Comprehensive Data for Usage Tracking and Voice Quality Diagnostics
  
  The call detail recording (CDR) and Quality of Experience (QoE) databases have been updated to include new usage and diagnostic data for all new Lync Server 2010 features, conferencing, registration, and device diagnostics. New database schemas incorporate these changes.
  
  
• New Management Features
  
  Monitoring Server now uses Lync Server Management Shell cmdlets for all administration and management tasks. Lync Server provides centralized deployment for Monitoring Server from Topology Builder and the Deployment Wizard.
  
  
• Optimized Infrastructure
  
  The Monitoring Server infrastructure has been optimized to improve reliability and maintainability.