The "Average Holding Time for Incoming Messages" managed SIP stack performance counter seems to be affected by the time that it takes for the user to answer a call in Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2019 or 2015. This performance counter is supposed to measure how long it takes to make a routing decision about CSIPMessage instances. It should not depend on message timing.
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