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Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by douche »

rpeden wrote: post #7

I haven't tried many of Azure's more advanced features, but I've found the admin interface to be a pain. The series of UWP/Metro style panels and flat design has been a bit clunky and non-intuitive when I've had to use it. I don't intend that as a slight against anyone who works on the Azure admin UI. I realize that trying to create an interface to a complex set of services is no easy task.

The old management UI is better, IMO. I get lost in the never-ending accordions of blade panels in the new one.

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Post by leroman »

If you tried using Azure you were met with two different web interfaces who are mutually exclusive (by this I mean you can't manage resources created in one via the other) plus MANY CLI tools with overlapping capabilities.. Finding the relevant documentation can be a pain at the least.. We were trialling it as we got it for free, and got off of it as soon as we got the AWS free start-up package.

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by michahell »

efitz wrote: post #9

The 404 error page that was actually localized to several languages looked pretty useful. I don't understand the problem with that page.

What if you speak Xhosa ? Computer says no. It's about (very probably) knowing the user`s internationalization / locale and still displaying 50 other languages they (very probably) don't need to know about.

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by Ono-Sendai »

I agree (with Azure not being ready for primetime).

Their subscription page is incredibly slow: I timed it taking 17 seconds to load! http://forwardscattering.org/post/41

After using some Azure VMs, I found there was still some storage devices or something on my account, several hundred of them. I tried to delete them through the Azure website, but you can only do it one at a time, and each deletion requires several clicks!

So I gave up and tried to use their powershell interface to delete them, but kept getting complicated errors. Eventually I decided f*ck this, and just deleted my Azure account. They're still sending me emails.

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by whateverdudes »

stinos wrote: post #8

Makes you wonder if this is anecdotal or rather the common experience for most of the users with a pretty big stack on there? I've used Azure solely for running like the cheapest plan for an Ubuntu VM and it has been flawless for that.

Another anecdote: I manage a a couple of hundred VMs, databases, storage accounts, event hubs, Azure Web Apps and much more. Errors in the UI is pretty much a non-issue to me. I have multiple user accounts and manage multiple subscriptions and sometimes switching accounts gives me an error and I have to logout and back in. A bit annoying but hardly something which would make me switch.

I do suspect that their portal will not work well if the connection between you and their data center is shaky though.

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by Spooky23 »

zaroth wrote: post #3

Some of these seem a bit unfair to Azure, but this one was pretty amusing: User Impact: Users may be unable to activate or use SharePoint Online Sandbox Solutions. This may include event receivers, workflows, web parts, feature receivers, and InfoPath forms. Scope of Impact: While we're not aware of any customer reports of impact, our monitoring indicates that any user attempting to activate or use this feature will…

Consistent with most other SharePoint things that I'm familiar with. ;)

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by JonnieCache »

matwood wrote: post #6

Azure isn't ready because it throws errors sometimes? Welcome to the cloud. I only have limited experience with Google Cloud, but AWS has its share of issues like any other piece of software. With Azure at least MS appears to be attempting some useful error messaging.

I think the issue is more than the tooling randomly spills its spaghetti, rather than some percentage of instances failing, which is obviously expected.

Personally some of those screenshots would cause me to run a mile if I ever encountered them in my work. Those kind of generic, unspecified errors are terrifying when dealing with other peoples code which is ostensibly stable.

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by cesarbs »

mrmondo wrote: post #4

In the month we trailed it we found there were so many internal networking and performance problems. I went with with a suspiciously optimistic attitude as I am experienced systems delivery engineer and I don't find windows especially in the server special at all reverent these years, but I tried to objectify Jude it as a platform. Ill tell you what - it's built to make money for the backers - it's not built out of p…

objectify Jude -> objectively judge? :)

Re: Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

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Post by whateverdudes »

JonnieCache wrote: post #18
matwood wrote: post #6

Azure isn't ready because it throws errors sometimes? Welcome to the cloud. I only have limited experience with Google Cloud, but AWS has its share of issues like any other piece of software. With Azure at least MS appears to be attempting some useful error messaging.

I think the issue is more than the tooling randomly spills its spaghetti, rather than some percentage of instances failing, which is obviously expected. Personally some of those screenshots would cause me to run a mile if I ever encountered them in my work. Those kind of generic, unspecified errors are terrifying when dealing with other peoples code which is ostensibly stable.

Which one would make you run a mile?
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