Azure Sphere - is Azure Cloud "designed to fail"? (account startup problems)

My primary desktop O/S for the last 20 years has been Linux. I have a hard drive with Win10 for little else than to calculate the taxman's toll once a year. My retirement gave me the opportunity to explore more and more of the Opensource applications. I had reason to improve my skills in GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. No daily nine to five gave me the time.

Sean

Sean - So what you're saying is that you have never tried to use Azure Sphere, you don't intend to and are here just as an opportunity to bash Micro$oft? If you find that fun then fine, but that's not helping Ed very much.

Wow, who knew that was simmering under the surface. To think, I made a conscious effort to not respond to your last Pollyanna post.

I do apologize for being the millstone around Ed neck, dragging him down to the blue depths of where he has chosen to step off. (ha another water reference, I slay myself).

As for Azure Sphere, the project was not open in my geographic area. Even if it was, I had already decided it wasn't a project I could afford to spend time on. Further discovery, that it required MS services, only reinforced I made the right decision for me. Retirement already has enough frustrations:)

If recalling experiences supporting O/S's, is bashing Microsoft, then I am guilty as charged. I will use a MS product as penance. Can you recommend one that will punish me appropriately?

In future posts, I will encourage members to only see the glass as half full. I understand to some people, with that outlook they are not as disappointed or the avoidable frustrations are not as annoying when things don't go smoothly.

Sean

Re: "avoid the warm spots", almost spit out my hot tea when I read that :-)

I will keep on plugging away at things with Azure Sphere - In fact, I registered for the "Sensing the World Challenge" because the Azure Sphere concept actually has good potential for helping me to realize some IoT-related ideas that I've been mulling over for a long time - it will be great if it lives up to its potential (but I have lots to learn before I can come anywhere close to determining whether or not it's actually the right solution for me).

So, despite my grumpiness at having been forced to expend an unexpectedly large amount of time and effort and gasoline just to accomplish something that I had expected to breeze through in a couple of minutes, I will continue further along this path to see where it leads.

Now don't you be going and wasting good tea on my account.

It is always nice to hear of successes. Something to be said for dog determination. To bad you had to invest so much to get this far. Maybe the rest of the journey won't be as arduous? Best of luck.

I have a couple of hooks in the waters of Raspberry Pi questions but nar a nibble yet. Might be using the wrong bait for that water or there might be no fish.

All these water and fishing analogies I think I will go for a flick morrow. A little brook up the highway might have a mornings fun trouting.

Sean

It's cloud solution so of course, it will have tons of problems in comaprison with a standard embedded board, I didn't expect anything else. I'm a little bit annoyed by how integrated it is and unusable without connecting it into microsoft ecosystem, and I won't be using them for anything in near future but I can see the use for them in some specific solutions.

Are you part of the product development team?

I would expect a certain amount of overhead getting the system established. The trials for Ed just seemed a little excessive. He did manage to get some groceries on his trip to civilization so it wasn't a total loss.

Looking at the posts related to Azure Sphere, there are others who experienced problems getting registered. It doesn't appear to be smooth even with instructions. Just think, in the current test group assuming 20K units distributed, if 1% of the participants have issues you are talking 200 calls to tech support.

In a former life, as a person responsible for tech support, that number would be unacceptable. It sounds like you are interested in finding a solution, so best of luck.

Sean

Sorry for your troubles...

But here is some skinny https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-mfa-mfasettings#selectable-verification-met…

What you want to do is change to a phone call. Your phone will ring. When you answer you get a voice recording. Hit # and the verification will magically disappear. I do this at work when changing passwords every month. It is a pain in the a@@, but I was required to.

Hope this helps

Clem

Thanks for the link to that Azure MFA info - however I don't believe that I could have accessed that link at the time because in order to get to the Azure portal I would have had to have an active registration, however I ran into the problems while trying to get registered to begin with.

Also, I had tried receiving a phone call as an alternative to receiving the text, but evidently the Azure sign-up system did not like my Google Voice phone number.

Yes technology favors the prepared mind.