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LYNC SERVER COOKBOOK

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LYNC SERVER COOKBOOK

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Lync Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Selecting the right kind of report


Standard reports included in Lync Server 2013 cover information on system usage, peer-to-peer sessions, conferencing sessions, and call quality. We will talk about some of them in the following paragraphs. However, in addition to the previously mentioned reports, we can also create custom reports based on the reporting data we are already gathering. Customizing reports is an important step to obtain information that fits better with our needs. We will see how to create a custom report that contains information on the time when users joined and left a conference.

How to do it...

  1. Lync reports are based on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). To define customized reports, we have to use built-in tools in the SQL server. We can start by opening Reporting Services Configuration Manager and selecting the instance that we used to install the default reports. The next step is to open the Report Manager URL in a browser window. Then, we have to select Report Builder...