I 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…
Microsoft 365 Outage
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#62https://twitter.com/msft365status?lang=en
> We're not observing an increase in successful connections after rolling back a recent change. We're working to evaluate additional mitigation solutions while we investigate the root cause. Oooh that's panic stations.
Yep, I can imagine the feeling of doom when the rollback didn't work. Push back from the desk, head droops down, hand on forehead. Then I whisper, "Fuck".
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#63It'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?
There was a big one in 2018 involving authentication. A handful of datacenters outside of Houston couldn't get enough power and the shutdown procedures prioritized saving data. Some critical Azure system service was only located in that geographic zone and the data recovery priority caused that low level service to fail its migration. It caused a huge authentication failure across all Azure services globally. MS got blasted about it at Ignite pretty soon after.
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#64I just finished convincing old-school management to move to Office365/Azure/Teams after we've been doing everything on-premise, saying we can reduce our maintenance and increase in reliability since we're a small operation. Needless to say this isn't a good look for me.
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#65I've gone all in on Microsoft for my company (high Office usage) with O365, Azure and friends and I'm regretting this decision.
OneDrive for Business is almost unusable on Windows 10. The web apps are incredibly slow. Teams is very inconsistent for users between desktop and mobile usage. It's a mess.
I'm planning on switching to Amazon next year. I hope I can find an alternative to the Office situation (maybe offline licenses).
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#67I 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…
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-non-subscription-office-s...
Thanks! I was not aware of this news and I'm incredibly happy to hear it.
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#68Is 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…
https://admin.microsoft.com/servicestatus
teams are still down as seems like everything else.
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#69Seems to be Azure-related, all sorts of stuff is not accessible right now.
Specifically Azure Active Directory We (like many other orgs, I expect) have gone all-in on AAD, so this has pretty much taken down everything company wide with the exception of the factories. Good thing the plant floor isn't tied in.
This sounds like a pretty strong argument to make sure the plant is tied in too. I'd hate for everyone to get a break but them.
How frequently do you think this sort of thing would have to happen before your org considered a significant change in arch?
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#70My kids' school district is doing all online over MS Teams; things started crashing and burning around 3PM PST (no "Dad Support" can fix MS's servers though).