Source note · Network readiness assessment for cloud calling
Microsoft's retired guidance says ping (ICMP) is not an effective way to measure network performance and recommends the Network Assessment Tool instead.
Checked 2026-09-24
Measuring network performance through ping (ICMP) is not effective.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Skype for Business Online (retired)
- Subsystem
- assessment methodology
- Deployment
- multi-tenant
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- archived page ms.date 2017-11-28; product retired
- Checked
- 2026-09-24
Sources
- Media Quality and Network Connectivity Performance - Skype for Business Online (retired) — Microsoft · tier 2 current vendor documentation · section 'Measuring network performance', Note
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APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Network readiness assessment for cloud calling: source note network-readiness-assessment-sfbo-icmp-ineffective. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/network-readiness-assessment-sfbo-icmp-ineffective
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-network-readiness-assessment-sfbo-icmp-ineffective,
title = {Network readiness assessment for cloud calling: source note network-readiness-assessment-sfbo-icmp-ineffective},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/network-readiness-assessment-sfbo-icmp-ineffective},
note = {Source note network-readiness-assessment-sfbo-icmp-ineffective, checked 2026-09-24}
}