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Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by userbinator »

Nextgrid wrote: post #91
outworlder wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their reliability only looks bad in comparison with other cloud providers. Microsoft can still probably do a much better job compared to a small team.

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.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by andi999 »

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #108
koyote wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

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?

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by jojobas »

userbinator wrote: post #127

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Ironically found on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/distrib... The cloud is the ultimate rent-seeker's dream. The world's computing power in the hands of a few enormous companies... who then sell it to you in tiny pieces and charge for every little thing you use on…

>powerless to do anything about it

You can't even sack anybody for it.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by darthg0d »

markus_zhang wrote: post #96
koyote wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Me too. Got a few instances of similar situations with Datagrip and really wish we had local license instead of license server.

All JetBrains products support using a license key instead of using the JetBrains account.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by chillfox »

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?

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by chasd00 »

I noticed some strange behavior around 3-4PM central. I was searching my inbox and saw an error in Outlook "we're unable to search the server" or something like that. I have never seen a message like that from Outlook before.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by risyachka »

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.

You should look at it over the span of years.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by Aperocky »

jojobas wrote: post #133
userbinator wrote: post #127

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Ironically found on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/distrib... The cloud is the ultimate rent-seeker's dream. The world's computing power in the hands of a few enormous companies... who then sell it to you in tiny pieces and charge for every little thing you use on…

>powerless to do anything about it You can't even sack anybody for it.

The sweetspot of cloud is that it is more expensive to operate your own hardware alone, but cheaper than operating your own hardware with paid professionals to manage those hardware.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by Aperocky »

thanatos519 wrote: post #4

Is this /really/ the status page? It looks like it was pasted straight out of an email to Jason Zander from whoever is trying to fix the problem. https://status.office365.com/ Title: Can't access Microsoft 365 services User Impact: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Any Microsoft 365 service that leverages Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication may be impacted by this issue…

In all likelihood this is due to Azure AD, they got a much better status page: https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

It just seems that office 365 is part of that older monolithic Microsoft that we all used to hate.

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