Posts by SCuffy

You're the IT worker in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell

Re: Expectations of a modern workforce

... and Microsoft's secure government Azure offering in Australia. Just because you can doesn't necessarily mean you should :)

Re: That's an actual Shutterstock photo

May resemble the author before coffee. And after raging at ISPs.

Some simple New Year's resolutions for vendors – lots of love, suffering IT grunts of world xox

Correct. The author is a brunette and uses a Surface Book.

Migrating to Microsoft's cloud: What they won't tell you, what you need to know

Re: Hmmm

I've seen long file paths cause issues with Macs syncing Google Drive too, nowhere near any Microsoft products. The large Exchange mailboxes issue IS painful and shouldn't be an issue still in 2017, I agree. As for SharePoint, it's more a risk for people moving file share documents into SharePoint Online, because of how a file system stores and reads metadata vs how SharePoint does (onprem or Online). Nasty little gotchas for sure.

Re: Hmmm

It was intended to show people that the Cloud doesn't do everything for them and there is a bit of work to make it as smooth a transition as possible. No disappointment from me. This is the reality of any It system migration.

Re: Days?

You'd be surprised at how many people are doing it wrong. Enterprise takes for granted a decent internet connection. I've seen SMBs try to go Cloud with horrendous results because the IT person should never have gone near them with a Cloud solution, because of terrible internet.

In this case, speeds meant upload and download. It's very rare for the S end of the SMB scale to have internet redundancy. Mobile failover or hotspot at best. Sadly most of them live with the risk.

Great to see you are doing it right and have the experience. Absolutely agree that there are answers to all of this and these are exactly the kinds of things an IT expert will be prepared for and will overcome. For our no-IT managers and owners, hopefully it's enough to convince them it's not always a walk in the park and they should get an expert.

Re: "True data nerds love the value in metadata"

So much this. The metadata is contained in the file for a reason, NOT in the title. The challenge is that some migration methods treat the upload as a new file (as it is a new file created in the Cloud system) and you can lose your historical metadata if you're not careful. That's more important to some people than others.

Re: What you need to know

I'd say "it's easy to stuff it up." But very possible to do it well if you know what you're doing and can handle these kinds of issues. That's why we're IT Pros, right?