global-microsoft-outage

[DanielBowman]

self-hosting critical services

a] email and onedrive is not critical - for critical you better have radio and blueprints on paper
b] IT personnel is expensive and annoying, especially to females (as they treat any nerd at work as non-person)
c] cloud allows you to shift responsibility - which is kryptonite especially to middle management
d] cloud is cheaper in the short term - those who sign in will not be there when the real TC"O" arrives

 

[DanielBowman]

rely on cloud services from US with core services

Since they rely on us.mil for it's existence, some email provider is irrelevant.

 

[froggit9000]

Is re-moralization aka hopium PsyOp.
Since it was never found out who was behind it, we can assume it was someone where they can still keep a secret and on whom the CIA is prohibited to spy on.
*cough*Isra*cough*

If it is military, do the military publish their plans for all to see?
You know there are different groups within 'military', right? Different levels with different access to information. Let's see what happens. Time will tell. I can't prove anything and nor can you. Peace.

 

[rmomota]

I used to say that Microsoft should quit developing operating systems and focus on what they are really good at, the Office Suite.
Now I don't even know what to say.

 

[DanielBowman]

"The most concrete rumor so far (from sources speaking to The Verge’s Tom Warren) is that it involved configuration changes in Azure Virtual Network.Beyond that, no official technical details (exact settings, feature, or change type) have been released. Microsoft has promised a full post-incident report later."

 

[DanielBowman]

the Office Suite.

Actually sucks monkey ba...
Microsoft is good at Device Drivers.
And what saved them server wise was Group Policy.
Now what saves them is that you can have all in one package integrated through SSO. AD - GP - Exchange - MS SQL - SharePoint - Teams - Word and Defender. Plus whatever else you desire on whichever HW.
And GUI - admins are cheaper.

Hopefully the Ai will make drivers and software "obsolete", especially the Office Suit.

Where they slept on is a] hypervisors b] command line options - pretty important if you want agents to help you out with management.

 

[DanielBowman]

If it is military, do the military publish their plans for all to see?
You know there are different groups within 'military', right? Different levels with different access to information. Let's see what happens. Time will tell. I can't prove anything and nor can you. Peace.

 

[cracauer@]

Another advantage of using Microsoft cloud crap is that if you miss responsibilities because your comm systems are down you can just say that your outage is in worldwide news. If you fail because of (the same length) outage in a smaller system your business partner will punish you. They either don't believe that you had such an outage or they will assume it is your own fault.