RE: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
But at the most basic level - it was a human error (as I read it). Someone didn't mark the update package as a critical update. Arguably (and I can see this), because the package had 5 weeks before it was required... From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/01/details-of-the-february-22nd-2013-windows-azure-storage-disruption.aspx I give MSFT credit for doing a good analysis and *publishing it*. A lot of companies just say

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Kurt Buff
Agreed - human error. I'd suggest that it would be better to package that update not quite as far out - say a week, maybe two - and it's much more likely that the package would be correctly marked. Kurt On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: But at the

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/01/details-of-the-february-22nd-2013-windows-azure-storage-disruption.aspx I give MSFT credit for

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Matthew W. Ross
: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/01/details-of-the-february-22nd-2013-windows-azure-storage-disruption.aspx I give MSFT credit for doing

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: But at the most basic level – it was a human error (as I read it). “Someone” didn’t mark the update package as a critical update. At the most basic level, all errors are human errors. :-) Either someone didn't

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Peck
] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:28:00 -0800 Subject: Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tim Evans tev...@sparling.com wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/b

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Did you just manage to agree and also imply Sure, they released it but are probably still not telling us what 'really happened? why wouldn't you take this at face value? Because people lie? And big companies lie? --

Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:11:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption Did you just manage to agree and also imply Sure, they released

RE: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Tim Evans
Message - From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:11:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption Did you just manage to agree and also imply Sure

RE: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

2013-03-05 Thread Matthew W. Ross
System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:08:08 -0800 Subject: RE: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption I suspect, if you check the terms of service for Azure, you wouldn't be able to sue them for anything more than