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Ben Lee
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Sep 07, 2017

Network Assessment Tool Plus - Fedback?

Hey everyone,

 

Recently I've been working on some PowerShell scripts and PowerBI files to transform the data you get from the Microsoft Network Assessment Tool to try and make it more useful (i.e. allowing date/time slicing, combining sites etc...). I've published the results on my blog and the files at TechNet Gallery and would love to know if it's useful to anyone. Any feedback welcome too about the script and the PowerBI dashboards...

 

 

You can see more background info here: http://www.bibble-it.com/2017/09/05/network-assessment-tool-plus

And the TechNet Gallery page here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/lync/Network-Assessment-Tool-33485351

 

Let me know what you think?

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  • ThomasStensitzki-MVP's avatar
    ThomasStensitzki-MVP
    MVP
    Jun 02, 2021
    Due to the shutdown of TechNet Gallery, the download is not available anymore. Is the Network Assessment Tool available somewhere else?
  • Anthony Caragol's avatar
    Anthony Caragol
    MVP
    Sep 07, 2017

    I'm planning on giving it a shot here shortly with a client, assuming it's not too rough to set up :)  Will let you know my feedback, if you don't hear from me, you know how to find me.

    • Anthony Caragol's avatar
      Anthony Caragol
      MVP
      Sep 11, 2017

      So far runs great, I've DM'd you some specific feedback so far.. but it's working great.  About to hand off to my client for a bigger test.

      • Ben Lee's avatar
        Ben Lee
        MVP
        Sep 11, 2017

        Thanks Anthony - got the messages on DM will reply properly in due course but quick response is:

         

        Script signing - working on this and will hopefully have it solved soon.

         

        Multiple NIC behaviour - looking at a way to do a traceroute out to the MS IP and capturing which adaptor is used (capturing this was supposed to be a bonus and not used elsewhere yet)

         

        Client auto name - One usage for this initialy had been for non-technical end users to run (i know the powershell restrictions make this harder than it could be here!) so didn't want to complicate. I also wanted to make sure it could be re-run without requiring any prompts. Thoughts on using either config file or writing out a config after first run for subsequent iterations?

         

        Direct to CSV output - Agree this would be handy but I need to consider the PC culture implications. When we ran this in some EU countries the tool output data with "," instead of "." in the values so I want to add some detection & processing to catch this and properly correct.

         

        Thanks & keep them coming :)

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