This is what happens when companies become too big to care about their users and customers. Can’t log in? Your problem, not mine.
Sometimes we should just let things die. 🤷♀️
So yes but… there are still no good alternatives to Active Directory in the context of managing IT for an organization with 10,000+ users, thousands of endpoints, and millions of files which need to maintain proper association with individual user accounts and be delivered to specific endpoints on demand.
Google Workspace is the most feature-rich competitor, but it is a pale shadow of the level of IT infrastructure that Microsoft’s ecosystem provides.
For Microsoft to fade away, someone needs to build a competing large-scale IT management system that provides the same kind of functionality that Active Directory does.
Okta. We’re looking at replacing AD with it.
I must have missed the point where Okta has a joinable directory service with an extendable schema and GPO like functionality too.
Ah, but OKTA only provides authentication?
How does that replace the infrastructure management?
The world would be better if Microsoft was gone.
Upvote because song
“became”
Became? Became?
Google became miserably incompetent in IT
Microsoft ALWAYS has been miserably incompetent in IT.
This is nothing new. All Microsoft products always have sucked balls in comparison with other products and those few that at the surface level looked reasonably nice (say, windows 95) still sucked baaaadly when anyone bothered to look any deeper
The only reason why Microsoft got so big is due to great marketing and a lot lot loooooot of lies and sabotaging of competition
Fuck. Everything. About. Microsoft.
Bless his heart, he still thinks this is an accident.
My LinkedIn account (the stupid feifdom I need access to for job searching in my ridiculous field, you know?) locked me out for a similar reason (crime: using Firefox and a VPN to access M$ protected and owned data!)
There is no appeal process. No contact info. No way to even ask for help. Just… Hey sorry you did a thing or whatever, your account has been permanently locked.
I’ve fully divested from MS except for work devices provided by my employer. I won’t use any MS products again, I’ve been putting up with degrees of this for years but in the last year MS has fully fallen off a cliff in terms of customer concern.
Had this EXACT problem trying to fix our old Microsoft business account at my last job. Last guy ran off with the creds, wouldn’t answer his phone for 2FA.
Poked at it on and off for a couple of years, finally spent a full 8-hour day banging on it. Fail. Boss: “Yeah, didn’t think that would work.”
Y’all I am tenacious when you tell me I can’t do an IT thing, won’t give up. Microsoft left me a broken man.
