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Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by mindfulhack »

chillfox wrote: post #136
haolez wrote: post #65

I've gone all in on Microsoft for my company (high Office usage) with O365, Azure and friends and I'm regretting this decision. OneDrive for Business is almost unusable on Windows 10. The web apps are incredibly slow. Teams is very inconsistent for users between desktop and mobile usage. It's a mess. I'm planning on switching to Amazon next year. I hope I can find an alternative to the Office situation (maybe offline…

Depending upon your needs then perhaps Libre Office, or the WordPerfect Office suite would do?

If I were offering a free (as in price) alternative to MS Office, I'd first recommend WPS Office over LibreOffice, even though it's closed-source. It has a much better interface out of the box. But I'd use something to block it from phoning home to its probably Chinese government-beholden servers, like OpenSnitch for Linux* or LuLu for macOS.

(*) https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch

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Post by basch »

bleepblorp wrote: post #126

There's an unconfirmed rumor that this outage has taken out 911 services in multiple parts of the US. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nationwide-reports-of-...

I've seen Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) and AT&T 911 outages reported since this started.

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Post by acwan93 »

sixdimensional wrote: post #115
acwan93 wrote: post #64

I just finished convincing old-school management to move to Office365/Azure/Teams after we've been doing everything on-premise, saying we can reduce our maintenance and increase in reliability since we're a small operation. Needless to say this isn't a good look for me.

If it makes you feel any better, I've been that guy on both sides of the coin - both on the cloud and on-prem. Things go down.. even the cloud. I worked for a company, where I really did have nearly 100% uptime at my local data center in our office. I wasn't a luddite, and the cloud wasn't something I was afraid of or didn't understand. I just, at the time, had an infrastructure in place before the cloud existed, and…

> Tell them the truth - even the cloud has outages, but it is certainly more "convenient" to have hundreds of engineers work on fixing an outage at global scale, and all you have to do is wait for it to start working again - then it is to have to fix it all yourself.

Yep, that’s the argument I’ve made, both to management and even our non-techie customers. When we show them our new SaaS product, they get concerned about cloud outages. Our response is “if AWS goes down, you have bigger things to worry about since other things will be down too.”

The plus side I’ve mentioned that our company’s software developers are freed from doing network IT maintenance and infrastructure and can continue focusing on our actual core products instead.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by acwan93 »

userbinator wrote: post #131
Nextgrid wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The variable here is not just the size & skill of the team but their needs. In most cases a single company or team will need a simpler, smaller-scale deployment, probably running on one or a handful of machines and not requiring the insane complexity that a public cloud provider is running behind the scenes to provide their service. This eliminates a lot of moving parts and things that can fail. Imagine an Nginx serv…

An internal team is also going to be far more accessible and responsive to the company's needs.

If they have enough resources. When everyone is busy working on the revenue generating products for the company, taking time away to work on internal network infrastructure immediately becomes a cost center.

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Post by AlotOfReading »

andi999 wrote: post #132
OkGoDoIt wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It used to be you bought a key to unlock it permanently, but nowadays it ties your license to your Microsoft account. There’s a link to “unlock with a product key“, but I have no idea how you get one of those. I hate renting software rather than owning it, but also VS2019 is where I’m most productive so I put up with it. This isn’t even the first time this has happened. I do most of my development on my desktop compu…

Whats the difference for you between VS2017 and VS2019?

Time travel (reverse) debugging is a killer feature and only available for 2019 onwards. Prior to that you have to use their "IntelliTrace" stuff, which isn't nearly as good.

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Post by nezgar »

acwan93 wrote: post #64

I just finished convincing old-school management to move to Office365/Azure/Teams after we've been doing everything on-premise, saying we can reduce our maintenance and increase in reliability since we're a small operation. Needless to say this isn't a good look for me.

on-premises

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Post by jve »

drevil-v2 wrote: post #93
simonblack wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Me too. After a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago, I instituted my own File Server that's accessible via the Internet. All of my data is 'safe at home' with daily backups.

How do you secure it from unwanted access? I have been wanting to do something similar but I am unsure of the best practices

After setting up HTTPS, always being updated, introduce port knocking for HTTPS port : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

Its less of a hassle to use something like nginx reverse proxy docker container in front of your web services, as it comes preconfigured with some best practices regarding TLS. (TLS1.2+ only by default) https://hub.docker.com/r/jwilder/nginx-proxy

If you use docker, be sure to google around how to manage firewall with containers (must use DOCKER-USER chain instead of INPUT)

Ofcourse, you will get a bit involved in setup step if you choose to tie nginx proxy, letsenccrypt and nextcloud containers. But search engine is your friend.

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Post by vanchor3 »

bleepblorp wrote: post #126

There's an unconfirmed rumor that this outage has taken out 911 services in multiple parts of the US. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nationwide-reports-of-...

You should see what it did to the US Government. When the "automatic" authentication breaks everyone learns just how many things rely on it...

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

koyote wrote: post #55
OkGoDoIt wrote: post #23

I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png

That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Just yesterday I had a similar issue with Resharper, where our local licence server was down for the day. Luckily I was able to enable a 30-day trial. (and I guess Resharper isn't that mandatory to get work done)

If you logon to the JetBrains site you can download an activation code for offline use.
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