Comments on: Crazy Microsoft stuff http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html Tech writing blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nicholas Piasecki http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-157567 Nicholas Piasecki Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:20:58 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html#comment-157567 \begin{crazy-talk} Is the fault inherently with SBS--that is, the act of trying to provide this all-in-one package--or is it inherently the fault of the design and setup of each of these Microsoft tools (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint) in that they cannot easily co-exist in the same operating system instance? Really, shouldn't that be possible (regardless of whether or not it is recommended)? Shouldn't it be possible to do anything with AD that does not require becoming a subject-matter expert in the software and reading a 300-page tome? Why does migration involve Byzantine commands ("adprep -abandonAllHopeYeCanNeverGoBack") instead of a conceptually simple transfer of a database? I think that, perhaps, the SBS team can only do so much: when AD, Exchange, and SharePoint are all administrative disasters, there's only so much lipstick that you can put on that pig. It's an example of dogfooding, but the feedback never seems to propagate back up to the teams that are causing the problems because "it's just a configuration problem." \end{crazy-talk} (This from a tried-and-true junior Microsoft developer who is also "the company's computer guy" and completely terrified of the SBS 2008 server sitting behind his chair in the office.) \begin{crazy-talk} Is the fault inherently with SBS–that is, the act of trying to provide this all-in-one package–or is it inherently the fault of the design and setup of each of these Microsoft tools (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint) in that they cannot easily co-exist in the same operating system instance? Really, shouldn’t that be possible (regardless of whether or not it is recommended)? Shouldn’t it be possible to do anything with AD that does not require becoming a subject-matter expert in the software and reading a 300-page tome? Why does migration involve Byzantine commands (“adprep -abandonAllHopeYeCanNeverGoBack”) instead of a conceptually simple transfer of a database? I think that, perhaps, the SBS team can only do so much: when AD, Exchange, and SharePoint are all administrative disasters, there’s only so much lipstick that you can put on that pig. It’s an example of dogfooding, but the feedback never seems to propagate back up to the teams that are causing the problems because “it’s just a configuration problem.” \end{crazy-talk}

(This from a tried-and-true junior Microsoft developer who is also “the company’s computer guy” and completely terrified of the SBS 2008 server sitting behind his chair in the office.)

]]> By: tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-157540 tim Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:50:26 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html#comment-157540 Paul Thanks for the comment. I've seen this kind of stuff from hosters as well. However, there is cloud and there is cloud - you would expect that true multi-tenant platforms such as Salesforce.com, or Google Apps, would have much more considered security implementations. Tim Paul

Thanks for the comment. I’ve seen this kind of stuff from hosters as well. However, there is cloud and there is cloud – you would expect that true multi-tenant platforms such as Salesforce.com, or Google Apps, would have much more considered security implementations.

Tim

]]> By: Paul Culmsee http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-157531 Paul Culmsee Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:09:02 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html#comment-157531 Since every web hoster can be "the cloud", then this experience says it all http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/08/25/all-in-the-name-of-security/ Since every web hoster can be “the cloud”, then this experience says it all

http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/08/25/all-in-the-name-of-security/

]]> By: Paul Culmsee http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html/comment-page-1#comment-157526 Paul Culmsee Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:07:33 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2092-crazy-microsoft-stuff.html#comment-157526 Actually I am pretty cynical about cloud systems too :-) Actually I am pretty cynical about cloud systems too :-)

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