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They're actually letting you know what data center you're accessing as well. BLU / BL1/2 are "Blue Ridge", in Virginia (a few different towns). SN = San Antonio
by clauretano 14y ago
They're actually letting you know what data center you're accessing as well. BLU / BL1/2 are "Blue Ridge", in Virginia (a few different towns). SN = San Antonio, TUK/TK = Tukwila WA, AMS = Amsterdam, DB2/3 = Dublin, etc. Sometimes there are multiple DCs in the same city, sometimes the number just means a different cage in the same DC, and between products you'll see different naming conventions even for the data centers.
It's fun what you can find out given those hostnames. It shows how a unified offering like Office 365 is actually just a few totally separate products, usually hosted in different data centers, that all happen to plug into the same user provisioning system.
- sebtoast 14y agoI don't know about Outlook.com but if you use Office Live, you need to know that server name to configure Outlook. We've recently had to configure ~200 users and Microsoft had us login to each user's account to find out on what server they were on.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoAre you serious? That's crazy!
- sebtoast 14y agoI am. I know it's not such a big deal but I would have liked to just have a list of my users and their configuration, I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to get and we would have been much happier doing the migration.