Nothing of value was lost
Cyber terrorists are responsible. They are holding the world to ransom. They have threatened that if their demands are not met, they will restore Teams to full functionality.
Teams had functionality?
Still down on my end. My company decided (against my strong opinion) to use the whole microslop suite for the whole company and it’s been a quite… uneventful day. I’ve spent my day reinstalling DarkOSRE on my R36S, trying some new ports and roms… In 18 minutes I end my shift and I’m out until Monday. Meanwhile our IT dept is less than happy with the situation and the real possibility of having to come to the office during the weekend because everything is down and you can’t trust the system to send an alert if something happens.
Next time we have a talk, I’m gonna ask how did the outage go on their end and if they are still so adamantly defending the goodness of microslop.
I love it when core services are down. How am I going to know you have a problem if you can’t contact me? As far as I can tell everything we control must be good to go.
Seems to be back up here in England. It was down an hour ago. Kinda fucked with my work because my employers are Microsoft everything, for security reasons. Lol.
In other news Microsoft has decided to rename it office suite from office 365 to
Office 364Office 363I really hope it’s LLMs fault lol
This is why we don’t need RAM. So streamlined, you never have to even log in to get your email. That’s the future of computing.
Oh no! No logging into Microslop!
I hope the killbot drones running on Azure weren’t impacted…
Thankfully they are probably vibe-coding a solution as we speak!
I didn’t think we would be having issues going into day 2.
Here is where status is being updated by Microsoft:
Well they tried to ask copilot to fix the outage, but nobody could access it today, and there’s nobody left at Microsoft that knows how anything works
You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that’s on me.
~ MS 365 Copilot
Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.
Fortunately we only lost email. Probably sucks for someone but I can do anything urgent without it still. Anything that comes in by email is low priority and we have a phone number for anything important.
Wasn’t it like a month ago that some EU institutions rolled out Matrix as backup chat for Teams and people complained about it? I did not expect the people who insisted on having a backup for their critical tools would be proven right so fast.
Yeah the problem is the few of us who insist it be treated as a risk, and have it put up as an entry in the risk registers at our companies are driven out of town with pitchforks. And today, we aren’t even allowed to say “told you so” because the snowflakes who shouted louder than us are butthurt and run to execs. Fun times being in the IT sector nowadays.
In my experience, IT is rarely listened to. I suspect it’s just too ephemeral for people to understand. Even when shit hits the fan, they don’t understand the cause and effect.
Maybe it’s different at a company whose product is the tech itself, but when it’s not, you have to play a different game. It sucks, but it’s reality.
That sounds like the management in your company sucks 😩 You have my sympathies.
Thank you. Yes, yes it does. And of course after the migration decisions were made by others more than a year ago, and me inheriting it, NOW they want to know from me “do we have backups?” Uhm, how about you ask the guy who did the migration a year ago where in his plan he put that in?
It affects a lot more than just Microsoft and their services. Imagine all the 2 factor logins where the code is send by mail, such as payment processors or other services with high security. They’ll still work but the users can get locked out. If this continues for a little longer, we’ll start to see some real consequences worse than just email being down.
Other mail providers are working, so we could just send mails through those, but with Microsoft having the majority of business market share, you probably shouldn’t expect to receive a reply from anyone using it. Just another way it is disrupting a whole lot of people who have jack shit to do with Microsoft.
I work for a massive multinational, and we are absolutely fucked right now. Literally thousands of people that basically just can’t work because email and Teams aren’t reliably doing anything.
Yup. Looking at you UPS that requires sending a code to my outlook mail to change a surprise delivery parameters…
If this were even two years ago then many, many more users would have been affected. There are still a lot of users affected but that number is slowly going down over time.
The fun part is that email is fine and if you had the old standalone Outlook using SMTP servers you wouldn’t even notice the outage.
Well, you’d still notice since a significant share of your external partners/customers/vendors are on 365.
Exactly, the “new” Outlook is just a web wrapper. Nothing more.
Exchange online is down. Doesn’t matter which client you’re using (outlook old, new, whatever), when your exchange server isn’t on-prem
My Thunderbird client can see all the emails from my Outlook account, attachments included. Good luck doing that with the new Outlook
Yes it does. Outlook classic still has all my email (well what IT lets me store locally) so I have my history and attachments. Microsoft is trying desperately to kill it to replace with their useless web wrapper that works worse than the browser.
if I only wanted webmail, I’d use the browser.
But somehow this one is down.
