[LINK] Cloudy Accounting

[Tom Koltai]

So this is for all those people that don't know about :

A) The disadvantages of using Microsoft Exchange servers for anything
other than boat anchors for very small dingies, and;
B) usage of the .forward directive.
C) MX record updating
D) the inadvisability of trusting microsoft to handle any of the
extremely difficult and highly technical topics referred to above in B &
C.

Please note relegation of "M"icrosoft to non Proper noun status.

I fail to understand how any company that has the foresight to buy Skype
for a global Telecommunications/Advertising/Search TKO doesn't (and has
never quite managed to,) "Grok" Email.


;-P    TomK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2011 9:20 AM
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] Cloudy Accounting
> 
> 
> At 8:40 +1000 9/8/11, Tom Worthington wrote:
> >only application I could not get for that was accounting 
> software. My 
> >accountant couldn't recommend any Linux accounting software, 
> so I use 
> >the web based SAASU: 
> >http://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/08/web-based-accounting-package.html
> 
> In the same download, this came through:
> 
> DIY Office 365 migration faces certain outage
> 
> By Liam Tung on Aug 9, 2011 7:04 AM (2 hours ago)
> Filed under Software 
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/266215,diy-office-365-migration-
> faces-certain-outage.aspx
> 
> Wait for us, says Microsoft.
> 
> Microsoft has warned eager Office 365 customers and partners that 
> migrating data off Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) 
> themselves could result in email account outages longer than 24 hours.
> 
> BPOS was a suite of hosted services including Microsoft Exchange, 
> SharePoint, Office Communications and Live Meeting, that had been 
> superseded by the newer hosted suite Office 365.
> 
> Microsoft said it had received "a number" of support calls from 
> concerned customers that had attempted to migrate from BPOS to Office 
> 365 themselves only to find that inbound email was knocked out.
> 
> "Please be aware that if you attempt a manual migration, emails sent 
> to your domains will be returned to sender as undeliverable until 
> Support can delete your domain from BPOS and you can re-create in 
> Office 365," Microsoft's Online blogger Michael O'Neill explained on 
> Sunday.
> 
> To avoid the outage customers should avoid setting up Office 365 
> without first scheduling a transfer of domains with Microsoft 
> Support. 
> 
> Microsoft announced Office 365 in June as the replacement for 
> Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) in June. Australian 
> customers were expected to be offered a transition at some stage in 
> the 12 months. 
> 
> Anyone that was not already an expert in Exchange server migrations 
> should wait "just a couple of months" for Microsoft to transition its 
> US tenants, said O'Neill. 
> 
> A potential bottleneck exists with Microsoft Support, which must 
> delete BPOS domains before firing a new one up under Office 365.
> 
> Customers also need to have had their production domain removed from 
> Microsoft's anti-spam product, Forefront Online Protection for 
> Exchange (FOPE), and this process would result in an extended outage.
> 
> "This email outage could last as long as 24 hours (possibly longer if 
> many customers are asking Support to delete their domains at the same 
> time as you)," said O'Neill.
> 
> Although there were workarounds to the FOPE delay, Microsoft did not 
> recommend them.
> 
> 
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