Might need to rename to Microsoft 364 after today.
On the contrary, 2020 is a leap year. In such a year, "Microsoft 365" asserts only two 9s of uptime.
Microsoft 365 Outage
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Re: Microsoft 365 Outage
#52It's called Office 365 for a reason. 2020 is a leap year, but there is no reason for the outage to occur exactly on February 29 or December 31.
Wasn't there also a widely-publicized outage in 2016?
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#53I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png
That's strange, I assume it doesn't work when you aren't connected to the internet either?
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#54is this a national risk? - think other countries taking out these massive, saas offerings. must be easier than simultaneously targeting thousands of disparately configured, onprem implementations
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#55I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png
That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud.
Just yesterday I had a similar issue with Resharper, where our local licence server was down for the day. Luckily I was able to enable a 30-day trial. (and I guess Resharper isn't that mandatory to get work done)
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#56I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png
yup its authentication. So 365 is one of many top level MS services not accepting new sessions.
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#57Is this /really/ the status page? It looks like it was pasted straight out of an email to Jason Zander from whoever is trying to fix the problem. https://status.office365.com/ Title: Can't access Microsoft 365 services User Impact: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Any Microsoft 365 service that leverages Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication may be impacted by this issue…
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#58Remember when x5 9s uptime was a thing?
For an office suit? If my computer is on, the LibreOffice is running.
I think I once did something stupid like try to patch GoOffice into OpenOffice and couldn't get it to build. But the distro packages still worked!
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#59I know many posts in this thread have been jokes, but I do hope this outage helps MS reconsider their offline iterations of Office. I use Office on a near constant basis (writing and building lecture PowerPoints). The subscription model isn't feasible and would ultimately be more expensive in the long term. When Office 2019 was released I quickly picked it up out of worry that MS would shift their academic licensing programs to 365, which they ultimately did.
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#60Remember when x5 9s uptime was a thing?
It still is, but five nines availability is a different matter entirely!