{"id":17463,"date":"2014-11-20T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17463"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:36:35","slug":"microsoft-news-20-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17463","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News &#8211; 20 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of upset people because of (1) the Azure outage and (2) how Microsoft communicated during the outage. We had a couple of affected customers. The only advice I can give to Microsoft is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don\u2019t deploy your updates to everything at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>Now you know how customers feel when bad updates are issued. Bring back complete testing.<\/li>\n<li>Communicate clearly during an issue &#8211; that includes sending emails to affected customers. You\u2019ve got monitoring systems &amp; automation &#8211; use them. Heck, you even blogged about how (Azure) Automation could be used by customers to trigger actions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Hyper-V<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/taylorb\/archive\/2014\/11\/19\/backup-jobs-failing-post-nov-rollup-install.aspx\">Backup Jobs Failing Post Nov Rollup Install<\/a>: Hyper-V PM Taylor Brown has an update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2014\/11\/19\/azure-outage.aspx\">Microsoft Azure Services Hit By Widespread Outages<\/a>: There&#8217;s a lot of anger out there because of how Microsoft reported these issues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/19\/update-on-azure-storage-service-interruption\/\">Update on Azure Storage Service Interruption<\/a>: A little bit of information on the issues of the previous 24 hours.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/rslaten\/archive\/2014\/11\/18\/create-a-multi-nic-vm-with-a-public-ip-in-azure.aspx\">Create a Multi-NIC VM with a Public IP in Azure<\/a>: Take advantage of this new feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Miscellaneous<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/overview-of-microsoft-cloud-platform-system.htm\">An Overview of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System<\/a>: A post by me on Petri.com about Microsoft CPS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7fb89bb3-0880-4566-97b5-42c3ad53648f\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/WIndows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">WIndows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Backup\" rel=\"tag\">Backup<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Azure\" rel=\"tag\">Azure<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud+Computing\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud Computing<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Networking\" rel=\"tag\">Networking<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of upset people because of (1) the Azure outage and (2) how Microsoft communicated during the outage. We had a couple of affected customers. The only advice I can give to Microsoft is: Don\u2019t deploy your updates to everything at the same time. Now you know how customers feel when bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News &#8211; 20 November 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,55,172,59,180,181,185,80,99,195,118,120],"class_list":["post-17463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-backup","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-hardware","tag-hyper-v","tag-microsoft","tag-networking","tag-storage","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17464,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions\/17464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}