[LINK] Cloudy Accounting

[Steven Clark]

One arm having market foresight is not the same as another having technical skills, or more probably, the planning freedom, to set up sensible (not 'senile'?) transition processes. 

Microsoft has always had a knack for buying IP, then struggling to integrate it into their (usually) rigidly controlled development cycles. This is the company that has long been two, now three, competing fiefdoms (divisions is so apt here) fighting over who is more important: OS, apps, or things. 

The recently circulating line graphic comparing corporate org charts for microsoft, amazon, facebook, oracle, apple, and google speaks volumes. 

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On 09/08/2011, at 13:08, "Tom Koltai" <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
> <SNIP>
> 
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