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You mention onedrive, funny (perhaps not) story: I've seen 5~ situations at different organisations where malware in the form of cryptolocker spreads through on

by mrmondo 10y ago

You mention onedrive, funny (perhaps not) story: I've seen 5~ situations at different organisations where malware in the form of cryptolocker spreads through onedrive destroying everyone's files and connected computers more often than not, also interestingly I've seen onedrive completely mess up its versioning system and rid the organisation at hands files dated and resulting in days if not weeks of re-work. I can't believe these things seem to go unreported as if I've seen it (at least) 5 times others must have witnessed it many more, onedrive seems like one the carrier of bad all that is bad and vulnerable in the Microsoft ecosystem. Note: I am not some anti-corp / anti-ms fanboy, I'm simply stating what I've witnessed which I have not with other platforms.

tallanvor 10y ago
I assume the organizations were using ODB as on-prem only? If they were using it with SharePoint Online they could request a point in time restore. --With on-prem solutions, they have to be managing their own backup strategy, which many companies are horrible at. In this respect, I don't think it's really any different than it would be with Dropbox or another cloud provider, although I suppose they could have tools that require less manual intervention to do the restore?
- mrmondo 10y ago
  No, at least three of them were online / part of the O365 bundle (fumble if you ask me), it was an absolute nightmare dealing with Microsoft support, the level of incompetence they showed two of the times (when I was involved) was astounding, I'd heard bad things but it was next level and what made it worse is they were paying for the service, both with money and with the downtime while they were messed around both by the initial disruption and the messing around with the seemingly endless running with Microsoft support engineers, finally files were restored but the damage from the downtime and time spent on trying to get the vendor to deliver the cost to the business in at least one of the cases (I'm under an NDA for the one) was immeasurable but large. They experienced had previously experienced many problems with MS support and with the O365 (completely online / hosted) platforms it is enough that they're now underway evaluating alternatives, it might be the same products but on-prem or something entirely different but I am not involved in that process.

by mrmondo 10y ago

tallanvor 10y ago

I assume the organizations were using ODB as on-prem only? If they were using it with SharePoint Online they could request a point in time restore. --With on-prem solutions, they have to be managing their own backup strategy, which many companies are horrible at. In this respect, I don't think it's really any different than it would be with Dropbox or another cloud provider, although I suppose they could have tools that require less manual intervention to do the restore?

mrmondo 10y ago
No, at least three of them were online / part of the O365 bundle (fumble if you ask me), it was an absolute nightmare dealing with Microsoft support, the level of incompetence they showed two of the times (when I was involved) was astounding, I'd heard bad things but it was next level and what made it worse is they were paying for the service, both with money and with the downtime while they were messed around both by the initial disruption and the messing around with the seemingly endless running with Microsoft support engineers, finally files were restored but the damage from the downtime and time spent on trying to get the vendor to deliver the cost to the business in at least one of the cases (I'm under an NDA for the one) was immeasurable but large. They experienced had previously experienced many problems with MS support and with the O365 (completely online / hosted) platforms it is enough that they're now underway evaluating alternatives, it might be the same products but on-prem or something entirely different but I am not involved in that process.