Microsoft Outage
Discussion
I think they haven't woken up yet, they're retired, don't use computers or half the people who you see in NP&E are actually bots and don't use Microsoft products and services 
For their benefit here's a summary from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
For their benefit here's a summary from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
- Early this morning, Microsoft reported a major outage, saying it was "aggressively pursuing" methods to fix the problem.
- The outage is affecting several Microsoft 365 platforms, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot.
- A later update said the changes being made to try and fix the problem were "not taking as expected".
- Microsoft later said the outage was not believed to be due to "malicious activity".
- While a long-term fix has not yet been found, Microsoft said "partial recovery has been observed" although not sustained.
Jader1973 said:
Well, I ve been at work for 7 hours with no e-mail access and iffy Teams. I stupidly decided to come to the office as well 
Last e-mail in my inbox is from 5:03pm yesterday, although the ones on my phone go to 6pm.
How are you lot going?
Getting in first before the rush...Last e-mail in my inbox is from 5:03pm yesterday, although the ones on my phone go to 6pm.
How are you lot going?
Absolutely fine, but then we don't use Microsoft's hosted email.
We don't uses any third-party 'cloud' based stuff either (we do have some co-located machines)
Of course, if we do have an outage, it is down to us (me) to fix it, and we have less resource than Microsoft.
For general 'office' type work - so, what, a short outage really shouldn't matter. What worries me more - and has for a while - are services that are 'critical' using such solutions. eg. I happen to know that the local ambulance service uses Office365 - not for patient facing stuff, but for all of the internal organisational tasks.
People seem to have too much reliance on third-party (or even in-house) systems and the processes fall apart with no resilience. That is down to a system design issue.
Same when mobile networks went down for a very short time a few years ago.
No ideas for a name said:
People seem to have too much reliance on third-party (or even in-house) systems and the processes fall apart with no resilience. That is down to a system design issue.
About a year ago there was a policy change at my works to move to pretty much only Microsoft and cloud based products only for 'enhanced security integration' for 'a secure and efficient digital workplace".I did say at the time I thought it was a bit of a risk putting everything in one off-site hosted basket.
I suspect if OneDrive ever has an 'issue' that will be fun for a lot of people in the office.
alangla said:
Direct impact on car stuff, I was trying to test the Carista app with my OBD reader but couldn t because the 2FA email it sends out is lost in the ether. There will be a lot of that in other email based 2FA systems.
That is an interesting issue that I hadn't thought of.It can be mitigated at your end by having an alternative email (such as gmail), but of no use at all if the provider has decided to route its outgoing verifications via a Microsoft server.
Still early, but we have customers that use O365 will be open now... I was expecting some calls at about six. One routes their web shop orders through our servers rather than MS... but that just means they will be sent, but not received by their sales people... it is perishable goods too. Not good.
alangla said:
Direct impact on car stuff, I was trying to test the Carista app with my OBD reader but couldn t because the 2FA email it sends out is lost in the ether. There will be a lot of that in other email based 2FA systems.
One of our systems (that I rarely use but other areas rely on) has 2FA to our e-mail. I suspect they’ll try and change that asap.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff