On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Thursday, 9 May 2013 11:49 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Is Surface really failing?**** > > ** ** > > Office. Seriously?!? I could understand why you might want to run > Win2k12 as a desktop and have office. But generally when you remote into a > server, it’s not your desktop – it’s an actual server you wouldn’t be > running Office on it.**** > > ** ** > > And yes. We've got servers set up to do builds, which run tests after, > some of which are office integration. Because you don't want it, doesn't > mean everyone doesn't. Seriously. > > **** > > ** ** > > And running your integration tests involves someone manually logging onto > a server using RDP and running Office apps? That doesn’t seem to be very > efficient to me. Surely this can be automated using your testing suite?*** > * > > ** > It is automated. don't jump to conclusions. > ** > > I can understand that you might have to configure Office (assuming you > don’t have a build system that does this for you), but surely that’s a > one-off type operation?**** > > ** > THe integration requires Outlook to be present. > ** > > And in Production (rather than your test environment) this is going to be > even less common.**** > > ** ** > > But if you seriously need to use Office interactively often on your > server, then I suspect it’s not a common case (so I don’t think it really > detracts from the point I was making that the Start screen isn’t really > that important on Win2k12), but if you need to do it, pin the Office apps > to the Task Bar.**** > > ** ** > > To reiterate, getting to the Start screen isn’t really something that > needs to be done often on Win2k12. I’m not saying “no one needs to do this, > ever”**** > > ** > More often than you'd imagine. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
