Configuring DSCP for Skype for Business Online IP Phones

Just noticed on tech community you can now add DSCP tags to SfB Online IP Phones and here’s a quick walkthrough. Tech Community article https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Configuring-Voice-Quality-of-Service-for-Skype-for-Business/ba-p/118000

Setting the DSCP marking for IP Phones will help with Quality of Service tagging but for QoS you also need to ensure network is configured end to end to honour the IP markings.

1. Connect to tenant via PowerShell –

More details on how to connect to remote PowerShell into SfB Online  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn362795(v=ocs.15).aspx

2. Check existing settings using Get-CsUCPhoneConfiguration

image

By defaults VoiceDiffServTag is set to 40

3. run the following to change the value

Set-CsUCPhoneConfiguration –VoiceDiffServTag 46

Then i ran Get-CsUCPhoneConfiguration to check the configuration change.

image

Thats it!

You can set the DSCP marking to what you require but the default usually set for audio at 46.

Two other greats posts on QoS in SfB Online

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/skypehybridguy/2016/07/23/validate-qos-for-skype-for-business-online/

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/ExpressRoute-and-QoS-in-Skype-for-Business-Online-20c654da-30ee-4e4f-a764-8b7d8844431d

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.