RE: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Tomo
Here's a couple of articles from TheRegister relating to outages that have affected EU live@edu/BPOS/O365 services that I can remember. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/10/microsoft_bpos_credit_note/ http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/09/09/microsoft_cloud_outage/ There can be

Re: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Kat Aylward Langan
This is the response from my TAM: Unfortunately there is no specific site for users to view the historical uptime but you can contact me and I can share the general Office 365 Uptime Report with you if under NDA and could use manual calculations to try and determine your uptime. So in general,

RE: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
A tenant has the capability of doing normal pings, rpcpings, and HTTP probes to test office365 uptimes as well as track performance. I recommend it. From: Kat Aylward Langan [mailto:messagel...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office 365

RE: 2003 to 2010 Migration: Removing Public Folder Problem

2012-07-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-server/migrating-from-exchange-server-2003-to-exchange-server-2010-a-small-organization-perspective-104657 From: Al Rose [mailto:arose...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2003 to 2010 Migration:

Re: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Kat Aylward Langan
Yes but that is not a report from your vendor, which would I would normally require from them as part of the SLA. Since I worked for Hotmail for 3 years, I already knew that much of it stays behind the curtain, but I wanted to get it from the horse's mouth for the list. I already do many of

RE: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeah...but! Their SLA is measured from the edge of their network. Your SLA is measured from the edge of your network, and if you are generous, up to the edge of their network. Ne'er the twain shall meet. :) From: Kat Aylward Langan [mailto:messagel...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Re: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Eric
Thanks for all the suggestions. At this point we'll have to go with our best guess unfortunately. Thanks, Eric On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: A tenant has the capability of doing normal pings, rpcpings, and HTTP probes to test office365 uptimes

Re: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Adm
+1 On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Kat Aylward Langan messagel...@gmail.comwrote: Yes but that is not a report from your vendor, which would I would normally require from them as part of the SLA. Since I worked for Hotmail for 3 years, I already knew that much of it stays behind the

Re: Office 365 Historical Uptime/Outages

2012-07-24 Thread Kurt Buff
So, unless you get your cloud vendor to also be your internet connection, you can't get a real SLA. Sounds like finger-pointing heaven to me... Kurt On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Yeah…but! ** ** Their SLA is measured from the edge of