Comments on: Microsoft admits to wasting 2 hours a week on upgrades alone!

By: val

val — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:21:24 +0000

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By: Michael Kobrowski

Michael Kobrowski — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:49:40 +0000

Besides working as Domino Admin in my day job, I maintain a MS Small Business server for a small Historical Society & Museum. So yeah, those numbers sounds really strangely high to me as well.

Makes you wonder if thats a breakdown in Marketing there, or if thats their “recommended backup times” they just repeated through the customer.

And its still up there….on their website..lol

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:52:48 +0000

Charles, welcome. The point is that Microsoft’s marketing is proud of those figures. They chose to highlight this on their launch!

I don’t even want to know whats the bottom figure. Lee Company is Microsoft’s top story of choice. That’s not coming from anyone else but Microsoft themselves.

So, in the end, Microsoft did say that in their press release. And that is the truth.

By: Charles Robinson

Charles Robinson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:32:10 +0000

I’m just a fan of the truth and it should be obvious that this is FUD. No, Microsoft didn’t say that. A customer did. I manage 30 Windows servers total and spend less than 5 hours a month logged into them. I have no idea what in the world this company is doing that they were spending 15 hours a month.

By: Christian Tillmanns

Christian Tillmanns — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:10:34 +0000

MS is killing the main income of their partners. They can not reduce the administration cost in one big step. The next SBS (2013?) will only have a upgrade time of one hour and the installation will be done in just two weeks. Cool! ;-). The Jet Engine will still be part of Exchange, but you need an additional SQL server for calendering only.
By 2013 Foundations will not install at all. You just plug it in and it even migrates the exchange server automatically to an integrated communications system with phone, IM and mail. Asks a few questions, shows the appshop and of we go.
This is the best help for Foundations marketing we ever got. I am just sitting here, having loads of ideas how to use this to sell Foundations. Imagine what Apple would do with it.

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:27:40 +0000

I am waiting to hear from the MS fan boys today. Where are they today?

By: Keith Brooks

Keith Brooks — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:53:51 +0000

Man, you stole my thunder! I like posting these things too.
But in truth, the upgrade process of a Domino server is a few minutes usually.
However backing it up, which usually brings the server down is the time issue.
Yes clustering keeps users up but never do an upgrade without a backup plan.
EVER!
So what they were really saying is the message store of Exchange took hours to back up!
In Contrast, in Domino, I rarely back up the mail files before a point upgrade because nothing is going to happen to them. If it’s from R7 to R8 I do back them up as there is an ODS change among other items.
And if it does, so I run a replace design on the mail directory back a rev of template.
Microsoft can not even get close to this way of working.