CSAM apparently also means Customer Success Account Manager for those who might have gotten startled by this message like me.

Alternative für Deutschland was strange enough, when I saw CSAM I was really wondering what thread I had stumbled into

haha :D

Thank you, not going to google that shit.

"Apply to become a CSAM mentor"

Some really unfortunate acronyms flying around the Microsoft ecosystem . . .

Quite so. The acronym collision rate is high.

In general, plain language works so much better than throwing bowls of alphabet soup around.

That's a funny criticism to make on a tech forum.

But, for future reference:

site:microsoft.com csam

That's an even 5:5 split between both meanings.

Back when we used Azure the only outcome was them trying to upsell us on Premium Support

Do you recall the kind of premium support? Azure Rapid Response?

I think we weren't paying for support and it was standard Business Support they were pitching. At the time we were having pretty fundamental problems with Azure Single Server Postgres which was really just a terribly engineered solution which they admitted had some nasty issues (there was some bug that would cause the storage IO threads to deadlock causing Postgres to crash)

in many cases: no service health alerts, no status page updates and no confirmations from the support team in tickets. still we can confirm these issues from different customers accross europe. Mostly the issues are regional dependent.

> CSAM

Child Sex-Abuse Material?!? Well, a nice case of acronym collision.

They should rename to Success Customer Account Manager.

>> They should rename to Success Customer Account Manager.

No -- the one referencing crime should NEVER have be turned into an acronym.

Crimes should not be described in euphemistic terms (which is exactly what the acronym is)

You could argue "pornography" is the euphemism?

Most companies just call 'em CSMs

but that makes them sound like Managers, which is not what they are -- glorified sales people, really.

actual Managers hate that

Supervisor Customer Account Manager: a remote kind of job, paid occasionally with gift cards

...performed by cheap, open weight LLM.

Definitely the most baffling acronym collision I have seen with Microsoft. I did one time count 4 different products abbreviated VSTS at one point.

Didn't MS have three things called "link" at one time? They were all spelled differently, of course.

They must really depend on their government contracts with this administration…

Oh dear. Will make for an awkward thing to have on your resume.

"CSAM Ninja"

Wait till you hear about the Keen Kubernetes Knowledge iniciative

North American Zigbee Initiative

Where do these alerts supposedly come from? I started having issues around 4PM (GMT), couldn't access portal, and couldn't make AKV requests from the CLI, and initially asked our Ops guys but with no info and a vague "There may be issues with Portal" on their status page, that was me done for the day.

I got a service health alert an hour after it started, saying the portal was having issues. Pretty useless and misleading.

That should go into the presentation you provide your CSAM with as well.

Storytelling is how issues get addressed. Help the CSAM tell the story to the higher ups.