Best practice configurations dashboard for Microsoft Teams meetings
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As an admin, it’s important to ensure that your users have a reliable collaboration experience for their Teams meetings. The best practice configurations dashboard for Microsoft Teams meetings helps you manage and monitor your environment for seamless collaboration. This dashboard provides you with best practice configurations, the effect of your current settings, and actions you can take to follow Microsoft’s recommendations. The dashboard highlights locations that don’t follow Microsoft's recommended best practices. When you follow recommended actions, the trend of locations not adhering to best practices is tracked to help monitor progress. All monitored areas are evaluated over a period of seven days.
Access the best practice configurations dashboard
To access the best practice configuration dashboard, follow these steps:
Go to the Teams admin center.
Expand Meetings from the navigation pane.
Under Meetings, select Best practice configurations.
The Summary widget displays the number of best practices that need action and the number without issues.
The Best practice configurations table provides statuses and insights for the following best practices:
- Enable the correct ports and protocols
- Update outdated Teams clients
- Implement split tunneling for VPNs
To view a detailed dashboard with recommendation, select a best practice from a row in this table. A list of IP addresses is shown by city, displaying the extent to which each location follows best practices. You can use the name of the city, country/region, or the IP address to search and filter for locations. You can also export the dashboard's table in a CSV file that you can share.
Interpret the dashboards
The following sections provide details on the information in each best practice configuration's dashboard.
Update outdated Teams clients
For the best meeting experience, your users should always use the latest version of Teams. The media streams in this dashboard show when Windows and Mac users are on a client build that's more than three months old, which can negatively affect meeting quality. The outdated Teams clients dashboard monitors desktop clients (Windows and Mac) across the organization and highlights the locations most impacted by outdated Teams clients. To learn more about Teams updates, see Why it's important to keep Teams updated.
To view outdated Teams clients, select Update outdated client versions in the Best practice configurations table.
| Callout | Description |
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| 1 | Client versions trend - Trend of cities with supported and outdated Teams clients. |
| 2 | Recommended action - Actions you should take to meet the recommended best practice configurations. |
| 3 | Regions with out-of-date clients - Visual map that includes a date for when this dashboard was generated and a count of cities with outdated clients. You can also search by country/city/region. |
| 4 | The table provides the following data:
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| 5 | You can use these buttons to:
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Enable the correct ports and protocols
The media streams in the Enable the correct ports and protocols dashboard reflect Teams media communications conducted over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) instead of User Datagram Protocol (UDP). This dashboard highlights locations that have a high proportion of streams using TCP.
You should open UDP ports on both the network and client firewalls to Microsoft Teams services to avoid any impact on meeting and call quality. UDP is the preferred network protocol for media streams and high rates of TCP usage can negatively affect the Teams user experience. To learn more about UDP ports and client firewalls, see Microsoft 365 URLs and IP address ranges.
To view ports and protocols, select Enable the correct ports and protocols in the Best practice configurations table.
| Callout | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Network traffic trend - Trend of cities with TCP and UDP traffic. |
| 2 | Recommended action - Actions you should take to meet the recommended best practice configurations. |
| 3 | Regions with TCP traffic - Visual map that includes a date for when this dashboard was generated and a count of cities with TCP and UDP traffic. You can also search by country/city/region. |
| 4 | The table provides the following data:
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| 5 | You can use these buttons to:
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Implement split tunneling for VPNs
This dashboard highlights locations that have a high proportion of streams that connect over a virtual private network (VPN) without split tunneling. For reliable connectivity to Teams, you should implement a direct connection for VPN users to Microsoft Teams services. Indirect connections introduce more latencies into media communications and can degrade a user’s media quality. To learn more about VPN split tunneling, see Implementing VPN split tunneling for Microsoft 365.
To view split tunneling for VPNs, select Implement split tunneling for VPNs in the Best practice configurations table.
| Callout | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Network traffic trend - Trend of cities with VPN streams and all other streaming types. |
| 2 | Recommended action - Actions you should take to meet the recommended best practice configurations. |
| 3 | Regions with VPN streams - Visual map that includes a date for when this dashboard was generated and a count of regions with VPN streams. You can also search by country/city/region. |
| 4 | The table provides the following data:
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| 5 | You can use these buttons to:
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