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Post by kbr2000 »

acwan93 wrote: post #144
sixdimensional wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 abo…

Why are your software developers doing "network IT maintenance and infrastructure" in the first place? Is it because of "DevOps" maybe?

It's one thing to experience the sysadmin practise getting taken over by developers. The next thing is usually the latter needing to be "freed" from this burden... Seems like a big fad.

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

raxxorrax wrote: post #154
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.

Always get a shudder if teams is mentioned. I remember the team foundation server abomination.

Microsoft Teams (The chat/collaboration service) and team foundation server (The source code repository and DevOps platform) are two completely different products that happen to both have the same word in their name. Although I can understand the trauma ;-)

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

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…

I have found a Dropbox to be more reliable at file sync than OneDrive, especially if you have many, many small files. Then again, the pricing is so far off between the two that I can’t justify Dropbox anymore and just put up with the horrible OneDrive performance. Does anyone have any better alternatives?

Luckily Microsoft still sells offline licenses for Office 2019. There are several features missing that are exclusively tied to the Office 365 subscription, but overall it’s still the same Office productivity suite you would expect. Here’s to hoping they keep doing that in the future and don’t pull an Adobe…

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Post by simonblack »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #152
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.

> a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago What was that? They cut your access because you logged from a different IP?

It was probably my fault in configuration, however the idea was to have a DropBox whereby I could put in files while travelling with my laptop and those files would be taken up with my home server.

Except that it worked in reverse. My laptop was 'emptier' than the home server, so the home server's files were deleted to match the laptop. Hundreds of megabytes of files were destroyed before I managed to stop it.

On top of that, I only had a 2 gig per month quota for internet access while travelling, and all the DropBox activity soon exhausted that in days.

On later trips my own home server coped very well, with less overall unwanted activity.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

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Post by mindfulhack »

mindfulhack wrote: post #141
chillfox wrote: post #136

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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

My apologies, I meant ONLYOFFICE, not WPS Office. I got them mixed up. 'ONLYOFFICE' is FOSS and the one I meant to recommend!
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