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Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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No. It’s over managed. If I was handed teams I could vastly improve it on my own over a 6 month period. However the most significant change would be replacing Azure AD/B2C for auth with literally any other auth solution. I’d need a year to overhaul AD/B2C and would probably want to hire a team of two more devs so we could get it right for all use cases. Even then it could be so broken that it’s almost impossible to f…

I must be misunderstanding. Are you saying the auth mechanism is largely responsible for all the problems with Teams? Like if they added, I dunno, OAuth Login-with-Facebook, then magically all the crashes, disconnects, UI latency, bloated features, broken input text box and other poor UX design issues would somehow resolve themselves? Login is the one thing that I literally did once, on first app launch, and never th…

No I’m not saying that at all.

I’m saying there’s plenty wrong with it, but the thing that would take the LONGEST to fix is Azure B2C, because that’s a whole beast in itself and is tightly coupled with all of the other MS products from Windows to Minecraft, to many many thousands of Web Apps that were unfortunate enough to have used it.

As a user who has multiple Microsoft accounts (due to years of contracting), I can’t log in to teams.

Edit: Teams has lots of problems, fixing AD/B2C is by far the hardest because it is a legacy pile of garbage used in thousands of production apps

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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It’s so bad that if an organisation uses Teams I take that as a red flag and would decline to be interviewed for a permanent job AND will price that in for my contract rate. For me, use of teams signals the impotence/incompetence of the CTO and that other poor technical and managerial choices will persist at the organisation.

So Mr Consultant, what would you recommend a Microsoft shop uses? Not everyone is keen on IRC, or having a relationship with Salesforce.

What do you want me to say? Stop being a “Microsoft shop”?

You pick your poison. It wouldn’t be my pick but I’m sure you’ve got your reasons not to pick mine or someone else’s

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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Strongly, strongly doubt the problem is due to lazy coders. Organizations like this are always, always dysfunctional at the leadership level. ICs don't design the UX or choose the technology for Microsoft teams, senior principal architects and deputy vice president corporate usabilities do. The Vice President in charge of this is allowing their directors to engage in ridiculous design by committee.

If you spent even a day at Microsoft, you would see thousands of programmers (and people of every role as well) just phoning it in. It is an absolute nightmare. A terrible place to work for anyone who has a spine, ambition, and sense of pride.

Oh definitely. I find though, that if leadership has their head screwed on that kind of thing doesn't happen.

Laziness seeps in from the top down.

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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If you have been historically comfortable with MS Outlook, then O365's email service is far superior in every imaginable possible over GSuite...with ONE big exception of the web interface. But alas, I don't need a web interface for an application I might use 12hrs/day. Teams/OneDrive is hot garbage.

Eh hem... spam functionality tho? It's a killer, and Google has it down pretty well for obvious reasons.

Not sure how true that is, considering that Google literally places "Sponsored" messages in your inbox.
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