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I'm always impressed at how difficult the Workspace Admin Console makes doing literally anything. It's like I'm thrown into a database with an aggressively deno

by ericd 4y ago

I'm always impressed at how difficult the Workspace Admin Console makes doing literally anything. It's like I'm thrown into a database with an aggressively denormalized schema and expected to figure out how to piece together complete records by hand via queries.

jiggawatts 4y ago
Except that you can't query across anything, because that would be useful. One of my "acid tests" for a well-designed UI is if integrates metrics with configuration. For example, VMware will show cute little inline bar charts of CPU and Memory utilisation when browsing virtual machines. Similarly, some firewall or load-balancer products will show "hit counters" or similar stats next to rules or virtual servers. For the other 99% of products out there, it's up to the end user to manually perform the "join" by clicking around the GUI. There may be an API, or a scripting tool, but without fail these won't provide a robust link (a foreign key) that would actually make this easy.
profwalkstr 4y ago
It still many orders of magnitude better than Office 365 admin interface though. What a sad state of affairs.