this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2026
93 points (98.9% liked)
Sysadmin
15766 readers
70 users here now
A community dedicated to the profession of IT Systems Administration
No generic Lemmy issue posts please! Posts about Lemmy belong in one of these communities:
!lemmy@lemmy.ml
!lemmyworld@lemmy.world
!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
!support@lemmy.world
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I thought the entire point of a company running their own exchange server was that they don't need to rely on MS, and a fuckup at MS doesn't take down every company around the world
Exchange is complex enough that you need a team of people to maintain it.
It’s also exposed to the internet and to end users in such a way that makes it a security target.
Keeping up with it is/was difficult, and the cost to have Microsoft do it is pretty cheap all things considered.
Every once in a while a competitor shows up but really the last competitor was groupwise.
DevOops, why break one system at a time when you can break them in batches.
Or the oh no second as Tom Scott called it.