IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources

Post by canadianfella » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

navanchauhan wrote: post #56

bellyfullofbac wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess would be that's just their login, but their email would not have their location sub-domain (I've never seen a sub-domain in e-mail, well actually not true, people with domain + country TLDs all have it, e.g. clarkson@bbc.co.uk). Of course moving locations/departments would mean getting a new login which is all sorts of problematic.

I use pi4.navan.dev for my emails, while I’m getting the rDNS stuff figured out with my ISP. No reason, but it just signifies that the mail server is hosted on my pi4 at my home, while I host navan.dev on a VPS

Post by protomyth » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 11:19 PM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #82

protomyth wrote: post #32

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to their own servers "They were transitioning to IBM-owned servers," one source told us. "That's where it broke down."

“The problem is we are late getting off the version that becomes unsupported tomorrow.”

Post by Tempest1981 » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 11:45 PM UTC

robotnikman wrote: post #77

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.

At my previous company I administered a Microsoft 365 setup shortly after they switched over from an on premises AD setup with mixed results. One bug which stuck out was trying to sync sharepoint directories with a length of over 255 characters locally on a windows machine with onedrive. In Sharepoint you could create such directories and put files in them no problem through the webapp, but try to open a spreadsheet…

Post by TheOtherHobbes » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 12:08 AM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #37

MattGaiser wrote: post #21

So just the usual standard of IBM work I suppose?

At least they maintain the reputation: nobody ever got fired for buying IBM because the termination email didn't come through.

Post by failwhaleshark » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 12:19 AM UTC

908B64B197 wrote: post #72

Did they hire their own consultants to do it?