Microsoft can sure be frustrating!
Posted by ArchonisDM@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments
Anyone else feel like Microsoft’s entire business model is just:
- Rename everything every 6 months
- Move settings to a different admin portal
- Charge extra for the thing that used to be included
- Require Global Admin for something
- Tell you Global Admin still isn’t enough
I swear Azure billing was designed by a committee whose only goal was to make sure nobody ever understands their invoice.
Also why does every Microsoft issue now require checking:
- M365 Admin Center
- Entra
- Azure
- Exchange Admin
- Purview
- Defender
- Teams Admin
- Some random “new experience” portal
Just to discover the fix is “wait 24 hours for backend sync.”
Sysadmining used to mean fixing servers.
Now it’s decoding licensing and surviving UI redesigns. 😅
Anyway...i wrote a song haha...Enjoy!
AlexG2490@reddit
FgtBruceCockstar2008@reddit
Fill graph command documentation with AI generated nonsense and half the headers are default text of {{fill with x}}
TheDevauto@reddit
Repent and become a unix admin. Your life will change for the better.
jackinsomniac@reddit
But I don't even know where to start with administering those boxes!
joerice1979@reddit
Nor I, but when you learn it you know that knowledge will be largely valid for the next 30 years or so.
I'd not entirely valid, itl at least be consistent and expected. All dirty words at Chez Redmond...
jackinsomniac@reddit
I met a dude once who said he administered an environment that even deployed Linux desktops. Said, "it's actually easier and better than Windows/AD/group policy". I asked him to explain, but pretty much every word flew over my head.
I think I met him at a local DnD meetup.
joerice1979@reddit
Well yes, but if things don't arbitrability and suddenly change then how would we, the people, know that Dirk McDirkchad has become the fifteenth VP of streamlining vertical cloud leverage this week at Microsoft?
Please, consider Dirk and the money he spent at his University and stop your whining, won't you?
/S Obvs.
nikon8user@reddit
It is on purpose. The more confusing, the more you buy. They know you can’t or never leave
joerice1979@reddit
Very, very true.
Once you understand something, you can get tired of it and see it's limitations, then perhaps move somewhere else without limitations.
Microsoft's pathological aversion to a concise, intuitive and complete user experience with good, up to date documentation means you'll never get bored and move elsewhere.
djDef80@reddit
It's wild that global admin is not sufficient for some of the modules. Having to do any kind of compliance exports requires a a specific role held.
joerice1979@reddit
Compliance stuff happens on the moon, so global isn't enough.
It is so Microsoft that it delights me every time I come up against it
Kardinal@reddit
Wild?
That's called proper separation of duties.
As a GA I am glad I don't have some of those roles.
djDef80@reddit
But you can just give yourself the role. It just doesn't make sense why it's one step removed.
Kardinal@reddit
That gets logged and your SEIM can alert on it.
Sure it can alert on my use of the role too. But it allows lockout of that role with accountability in a large organization where separation of duties is a thing.
morilythari@reddit
So we are getting AI written questions, AI product spam, and now AI songs with AI art.
Can we please get some fucking rules around here?
ArchonisDM@reddit (OP)
To be clear the question was not AI, it was me. Chat gpt helped me write the song but I gave it all the prompts and changed a bunch of things manually... And I'm sorry I am not a singer, therefore I used AI to put a melody to it... So sue me...
TMS-Mandragola@reddit
The irony here is absolutely delicious.
I think I’ll buy a couple more Microsoft shares.
SufficientFrame@reddit
The portal sprawl is annoying, but the bigger issue is ownership boundaries getting blurred between identity, security, and billing. In practice, the only thing that's helped me is keeping an internal runbook of which admin surface owns which setting, because half the time the technical fix is just finding the right place before the backend sync catches up.
disclosure5@reddit
I'm currently doing the Purview certification and there are example questions about where to check Purview alerts where answers are "Compliance portal, dlp portal, inside risk portal, (correct answer) all three".
GuyWhoSaysYouManiac@reddit
That may be correct now, but likely will be wrong in a few days
AfterEagle@reddit
MS is just a terrible product now. Them and Adobe...
rodeengel@reddit
It’s sad to see just how bad they have gotten over the years. Microsoft is at least working on fixing Windows 11. Although we will have to wait and see if it helps at all.
SimplifyAndAddCoffee@reddit
don't forget breaking things that worked until last week.
Fit_Prize_3245@reddit
I have about 8 years working with MS solutions. During that time, the only thing that has goten into a separate admin portal was Microsoft Entra, which previously was part of the Azure Portal. Also, whatever I need to do, I usually have to go to only the right admin portal. I mean, if I want to adjust what users can do in Teams, it makes no sense to go first to Azure. Being the global admin has always been enough permission for my administrator user. Also, never got charged extra for anything.
However, what I coincide with you is that the Azure bill is really difficult to understand. Seems to be deliberate.
NetOps5@reddit
Facts. Love the song lol.
d00ber@reddit
This has unfortunately been the business model for all SAAS companies. The industry term is enshitification. It's going to happen to everything eventually (anything publicly traded) cause it's way cheaper to satisfy your shareholders by parting your product out than develop anything new or useful.