Begin monitoring Supply Optimization utilization and efficiency throughout your group right this moment! Following the Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences announcement again in November 2022, we’re excited to announce the overall availability of the Supply Optimization Home windows Replace for Enterprise report.

We genuinely recognize these of you who participated within the public preview! You helped us confirm the accuracy of the brand new information tables and revise the format. Your responses helped us establish and deal with all important points, so it might now be provided to all Supply Optimization customers. On this article, discover steering to:

• Get began with Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences
• Customise your Supply Optimization report

Get began with Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences

For those who’re an present Replace Compliance consumer, you are in all probability conscious of the Replace Compliance migration to Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences. The brand new report expertise gives templates for Home windows reporting for monitoring group and machine degree information with the added flexibility to customise a given report.

The Supply Optimization Window Replace for Enterprise report gives a well-known expertise, surfacing necessary information factors that provide a unified strategy to test the efficiency throughout your group. It comprises information for the final 28 days, and we have added the long-awaited Microsoft Linked Cache information. As well as, we have reorganized the knowledge to be extra simply discoverable, leveraging the important thing playing cards that present a fast and simple view of Supply Optimization utilization and efficiency.

Key playing cards with fundamental metrics in Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences

You’ll be able to rapidly discover the important thing items of knowledge on the high of the report. We have bubbled up the metrics you care most about. You will discover whole bandwidth financial savings for each Supply Optimization applied sciences, together with peer-to-peer (P2P) and Linked Cache.

Additional down the report, there are actually three tabs that distinguish between System configuration, Configuration particulars, and Effectivity by group.

Inside System configuration, you may see the breakdown of Obtain Mode configuration on your units. Every configuration quantity in parentheses references the Obtain Mode set on the machine.

System configuration particulars for peering standing are proven as a pie chart whereas configuration names and machine counts are proven as a bar graph in Home windows Replace for Enterprise experiences

In Content material distribution, you’ll be able to discover the breakdown of how bytes are delivered, from CDN/HTTP supply, friends, or Linked Cache. You may also visualize the supply methodology primarily based on the completely different content material varieties. By clicking on a specific content material sort, additional drill all the way down to richer content material sort particulars.

See an instance of a specific atmosphere that doesn’t have an Linked Cache cache server, displaying 0% of bytes.

Content material distribution is visualized as a pie chart damaged down by supply sort and a bar graph of quantity by content material sort and supply

The final tab presents a brand new possibility. Most of your organizations use insurance policies to create peering teams to handle units. Within the Effectivity by group part, you’ll be able to toggle amongst 4 completely different choices. After speaking with a lot of you, we have typically seen that machine teams for Supply Optimization are managed in 4 widespread methods by:

We have added every of those as a fast and simple tab, so you’ll be able to view the highest 10 teams by variety of units. So, for instance, in case you’re trying on the GroupID, you may see the ten high group IDs with the very best variety of units. Equally, within the Metropolis or Nation view, you may see the highest 10 cities or international locations with the best variety of units. Or maybe you are extra concerned with monitoring the highest ISPs delivering content material primarily based on the variety of units inside the group – for that, we have included the ISP possibility.

The Effectivity By Group tab reveals the highest 10 teams primarily based on Group ID, together with pertinent particulars similar to P2P share, quantity, and machine rely

As talked about above, that is simply the beginning of a brand new providing that lets you tailor your report to satisfy the necessities of your group. We’ll proceed to include richer options and enhanced expertise within the Supply Optimization report primarily based in your suggestions.

Customise your Supply Optimization report

A lot of the thrill with this new report format is centered on flexibility. It is simple to change the report template to satisfy your wants or if you wish to run queries to additional examine your information. To do that, you need to use the Home windows Updates for Enterprise experiences information schema the place you’ll be able to entry the brand new Supply Optimization-related schema tables:

See what these tables seem like inside the LogManagement part.

The Microsoft Azure interface displaying Logs choices, centered on an inventory of tables, together with UCClient, UCDOAggregateStatus, and U DOStatus

We suggest operating a question on every desk to study of the obtainable fields. Let’s take a quick have a look at every.

UCClient desk

The UCClient desk is used inside the Supply Optimization report back to get OSBuild, OSBuildNumber, OSRevisionNumber, and OSFeatureStatus. The information from UCClient is joined with UCDOStatus to finish the System configuration breakdown desk. You will discover that in Edit mode, you’ll be able to simply modify the question that builds this visualization. If any modifications are wanted, you’ll be able to modify this question accordingly.

The Azure Workbooks interface displaying the DO System Configuration breakdown in Edit mode

UCDOStatus desk

One of many two tables that maintain Supply Optimization-only information is UCDOStatus. This desk gives aggregated information on Supply Optimization bandwidth utilization. Discover the info for a single machine or by content material sort. For instance, the ‘Peering Standing’ pie chart is powered by the UCDOStatus desk.

The Peering Standing pie chart, powered by the UCDOStatus desk, is proven when enhancing the question merchandise for DeviceCountPeering

UCDOAggregatedStatus desk

The second Supply Optimization-only information desk is UCDOAggregatedStatus. The function of this desk is twofold:

• Present aggregates of all particular person UCDOStatus information throughout the tenant.
• Summarize bandwidth financial savings throughout all units enrolled with Supply Optimization.

A technique this desk is used is to construct the amount by content material varieties. Equally, this view will be simply modified both via the question or built-in UX controls obtainable through Log Analytics.

A bar graph abstract of quantity by content material varieties, similar to high quality updates

Be in contact

We hope you’re as excited as we’re about these new modifications for Supply Optimization reporting. There are lots of extra issues we plan so as to add sooner or later. When you’ve got any suggestions or function requests, we would love to listen to from you! Please submit it utilizing the Suggestions hyperlink inside the Azure portal.

A suggestions submission type contained in the Microsoft Azure portal

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