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Article • 08/26/2021 • 4 minutes to read • 9 contributors • Applies to: Microsoft Teams  

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Verify DSCP markings in the Group Policy object
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You can use policy-based Quality of Service (QoS) within Group Policy to set the source
port range for the predefined DSCP value in the Teams client. The port ranges specified in
the following table are a starting point to create a policy for each workload.

Table 1. Recommended initial port ranges

Media traffic type Client source port Protocol DSCP DSCP class
range value

Audio 50,000–50,019 TCP/UDP 46 Expedited Forwarding

(EF)

Video 50,020–50,039 TCP/UDP 34 Assured Forwarding

(AF41)

Application/Screen 50,040–50,059 TCP/UDP 18 Assured Forwarding

Sharing (AF21)

Wherever possible, configure policy-based QoS settings within a Group Policy object. The
following steps are very similar to Configuring port ranges and a Quality of Service policy
for your clients on Skype for Business Server, which has some additional details that may
not be necessary.

To create a QoS audio policy for domain-joined Windows 10 computers, first log on to a
computer on which Group Policy Management has been installed. Open Group Policy
Management (click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Group Policy
Management), and then complete the following steps:
 1. In Group Policy Management, locate the container where the new policy should be
created. For example, if all your client computers are located in an OU named Clients,
the new policy should be created in the Clients OU.

2. Right-click the appropriate container, and then click Create a GPO in this domain,
and Link it here.

3. In the New GPO dialog box, type a name for the new Group Policy object in the
Name box, and then click OK.

4. Right-click the newly created policy, and then click Edit.

5. In the Group Policy Management Editor, expand Computer Configuration, expand

Windows Settings, right-click Policy-based QoS, and then click Create new policy.

6. In the Policy-based QoS dialog box, on the opening page, type a name for the new
policy in the Name box. Select Specify DSCP Value and set the value to 46. Leave
Specify Outbound Throttle Rate unselected, and then click Next.

7. On the next page, select Only applications with this executable name and enter the
name Teams.exe, and then click Next. This setting instructs the policy to only
prioritize matching traffic from the Teams client.

8. On the third page, make sure that both Any source IP address and Any destination
IP address are selected, and then click Next. These two settings ensure that packets
will be managed regardless of which computer (IP address) sent the packets and
which computer (IP address) will receive the packets.

9. On page four, select TCP and UDP from the Select the protocol this QoS policy
applies to drop-down list. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User
Datagram Protocol) are the two networking protocols most commonly used.

10. Under the heading Specify the source port number, select From this source port or
range. In the accompanying text box, type the port range reserved for audio
transmissions. For example, if you reserved ports 50000 through ports 50019 for
audio traffic, enter the port range using this format: 50000:50019. Click Finish.

11. Repeat steps 5-10 to create policies for Video and Application/Desktop Sharing,
substituting the appropriate values in steps 6 and 10.

The new policies you've created won't take effect until Group Policy has been refreshed on
your client computers. Although Group Policy periodically refreshes on its own, you can
force an immediate refresh by following these steps:

1. On each computer for which you want to refresh Group Policy, open a Command
Prompt as administrator (Run as administrator).

2. At the command prompt, enter

Console ＝ Copy

gpupdate /force

Verify DSCP markings in the Group Policy object

To verify that the values from the Group Policy object have been set, perform the following
steps:

1. Open a Command Prompt as administrator (Run as administrator).

2. At the command prompt, enter

Console ＝ Copy

gpresult /R > gp.txt

This will generate a report of applied GPOs and send it to a text file named gp.txt.

For a more readable HTML report named gp.html, enter the following command:

Console ＝ Copy

gpresult /H gp.html

3. In the generated file, look for the heading Applied Group Policy Objects and verify
that the names of the Group Policy objects created earlier are in the list of applied
policies.

4. Open the Registry Editor, and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\QoS

Verify the values for the registry entries listed in Table 2.

 Table 2. Values for Windows registry entries for QoS

Name Type Data

Application Name REG_SZ Teams.exe

DSCP Value REG_SZ 46

Local IP REG_SZ *

Local IP Prefix Length REG_SZ *

Local Port REG_SZ 50000-50019

Protocol REG_SZ *

Remote IP REG_SZ *

Remote IP Prefix REG_SZ *

Remote Port REG_SZ *

Throttle Rate REG_SZ -1

5. Verify that the value for the Application Name entry is correct for the client you're
using, and verify that both the DSCP Value and Local Port entries reflect the settings
in the Group Policy object.

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