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Microsoft 365 Outage

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Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#71
post #7

Seems 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.

Yeah; that's the real lead here. Outage on Office web stuffs is bad. Outage on Azure AD is catastrophic.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#72
post #65

I'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…

I find One Drive frustrating as they don’t have a gitignore type of option. A few thousand other users agree, but MS has not implemented it.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#75

Is 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…

Microsoft's "official" status page, which they will usually refer you to, can be found inside the admin center. They've been criticized in multiple previous incidents however, for experiencing an outage then telling people they can get full updates in the admin center, when the admin center requires a functioning logon to a service which is down at the time.

The page you've linked is kind of the "our real page is down" page, and after the issue is resolved what we usually see is all that replaced with something like "go check the admin center for outage information".

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#76
post #7

Seems 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.

Which subsequently impacts Azure AD B2C. Our SSO is down on all of our sites.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#78
Azure DevOps' Git is also down (a git pull hangs forever) which is a bit surprising. I wouldn't have expected SSH key authentication to depend on Azure Active Directory.

Microsoft Teams also appears to be down so it's not just authentication that's affected as I was already logged in and it still doesn't work, just hangs trying to load forever.

Edit: appears to be resolved at 1:07 am London time.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#79
post #55

I'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)

I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud.

Me too. After a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago, I instituted my own File Server that's accessible via the Internet. All of my data is 'safe at home' with daily backups.

Re: Microsoft 365 Outage

#80
post #55

I'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)

> That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud.

Because you're less likely to brick your IDE than Microsoft is?

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