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I think it might be time to look for a new job.
They're going to cut off my team from accessing:
• Slack
• Skype
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Google Docs
• Gmail
• Telegram
• Trello
• Assembla (our ticketing system and wiki)
and others
They insist they provide everything we need with:
• MS Teams (bad UI & fewer features)
• Skype for Business (company policy doesn't allow chat history or external contacts)
• MS OneDrive (Eh.)
• Company Email
• ServiceNow (…)
• MS Sharepoint
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@mawr Oof. We're in a very similar boat over here, but have managed to finagle the Atlassian suite on a couple of VMs, plus our own servers. When we swapped from Google to Microsoft for everything, I can't even begin to tell you how much I cursed out the higher-ups. We're still not back to where we were on some things.
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@mawr RE #2: God forbid your engineers would ever have a project last longer than two years... That never happens, right?
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@zetasyanthis Hoooooly shit. They didn't even go the office365 route (which includes free live archiving which doesn't add to your counted storage totals)?!
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@mawr Not sure about money, as this is a 180k person company, so I'm guessing they negotiate a rate. I think they did it because they're considered business records and there are potential legal liabilities regarding them.
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@mawr And it is office 365. They just have settings configured to do that.
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@mawr And I guess what I'm saying is this: I'm screaming into the void too. ;_;
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@mawr And, uh, long live shadow IT. >.<
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@zetasyanthis Augh. ;~;
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@mawr If you haven't read Bytewave's posts on TFTS, you need to, btw.
Shadow IT (one of many)
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/2c9ypl/shadow_it_but_they_cant_know_we_have_this/
And this one isn't shadow IT, but you'll love it. ;)
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3cqx3n/the_worst_password_system_in_the_multiverse/
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@mawr My favorite stupidities were:
1. When they initially decided they wouldn't both migrating email/files/contacts from one to the other and we'd just lose everything in 6 months.
2. They've now set a two year retention on emails. If you need something older, you have to ask for retention on a PER Email basis.