Best Practices

The following are the best practices from this chapter:

• Leverage the Monitoring Server to keep a close eye on the overal and ongoing health of your deployment and to troubleshoot user experience quality issues.

• Although the Lync Server Control Panel might seem more familiar at first, there are several functions that can be accomplished only in the Management Shell; this includes deploying the Monitoring Server Report Pack.

• A single Monitoring Server can monitor up to three front end pools. However, in larger deployments, a dedicated Monitoring Server per pool might be required.

• For larger deployments, use a dedicated SQL Reporting Services Server.

• Before running the DeployReports.ps1 script, ensure the group you specify for Read Only access already exists in Active Directory.

• Always publish a new topology before making changes or before installing a new server role.

• Test your SQL Reporting Services deployment before loading the Monitoring Server Report Pack.