I admin exchange (note: NOT 365) mail accounts for hundreds of clients.
We’re “five nines” 99.999% uptime for the year still.
Right now it’s becoming near-impossible to NOT brag about that fact.Honestly put that bitch on the annual review this year mate
I checked this morning and it said 999 was down so it could have been a bit better
I had a very relaxed workday today. The silence in my email was like a tomb.
Weird. It’s almost like putting billions of eggs in one basket and tossing a live hand grenade in the middle has a negative effect on said eggs.
I wonder how big a pile of eggs you’d need for the outermost ones to not break when the grenade explodes…
Where’s Randall Munroe when you need him
Yep. There is very little reason or benefit in centralizing a naturally decentralized technology like email
Uh, what about all the money Microsoft has now to invest in making their products better? Wait…
I utterly lothe that this is true but I have one solid argument for needing centerlization of email. It is spam filtering. Both incoming and not getting filtered by others outgoing.
I’m sure it is solvable through other means but I can assure you working in IT myself that is isn’t an easy solve which is why this has won out in practice.
I’m sure it is solvable through other means
How about kinetic orbital bombardment. You know, “Rods From God.” Didn’t turn out to have much strategic military value, but would they be an effective deterrent against spammers, scammers, junk mailers and robocallers? One way to find out!
IT guy here. Anyone got a loaded gun I can borrow? Just one bullet.
this is one of those rare times I enjoy all our shit being in the cloud. Not a damn thing I can do but post an advisement, and everyone knows there’s no room to be mad at me. It’s practically been a day off
This was my first thought upon hearing this news. For some companies, not having Teams and Outlook is basically PTO.
I’m just mad these big outages always happen during American work hours. Come on, I want to sit and twiddle my thumbs in Europe too.
Have you been making the appropriate blood sacrifices?
It’s 4:30 UTC, seems like the sacrifice is much appreciated.
Not a damn thing I can do but post an advisement
A paper one, on the office bulletin board, because Outlook is also down, lol.
I would’ve gone into the office to do that if teams had gone down too. Unfortunately it did not for us lol
Also in IT, if only Teams could go down too 🤞🏻
Retired former IT guy here. I’m enjoying watching the tech world burn while wrapped in a blanket on my couch, sipping hot chocolate. ☕
I feel bad for my fellow IT guys who have to deal with it, but it’s so nice being removed from it all now.
I mean the beauty of SaaS is that all the IT guys can throw their hands in the air and say it’s not their problem.
Unless you work for MS, of course.
I just walked through the office telling literally everyone I saw “Outlook is down pass it on”
It would be a dramatic improvement in service.
it was out for somebody
I was sooooo hopeful when I saw it in the list of affected services, buuuuuuuut noooooooooooo
You should know by now 2 is one, 1 is none
What’s going on?
Thats art right there. Either sloppers, hacks, or attacks, keel it up please. I want a week of outage. Teach em a lesson.
My guess: Very vibe crapped November patches on Windows pulling the bottom from under Azure and M365. They should migrate to NetBSD for some actual resilience heheheh.
I’m wondering if it might be a hack because there’s been some weird phishing attacks going along with it. Could also just bad actors taking advantage of the chaos.
MS released a statement saying it was basically a bad server config. But who knows
Column A&B, its most likely bad rolls on the slop machine, That’s basically what our T4 support from Microsoft has been for the past year
Business as usual, no?
M365 down I think
I didn’t even notice. I guess that means I’m computering right.
Not being in IT and fundamentally just taking life easy regardless of what is happening, it has been really nice today. Didn’t realize just how pervasive email is until it is gone.
I have the dumb. Can someone explain what’s going on?
Nearly all of Microsofts online services like Outlook are down :). Unfortunately not Microsoft Teams for my company though
More info: Potentially impacted services include:
- Exchange Online
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Copilot 365
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft To Do
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Microsoft Purview: Multiple Purview services including Authorization, Auto Labelling, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Communication Compliance, and Data Classification are impacted.
- Power BI: All users may intermittently be unable to export reports with MIP sensitivity labels to PDF in Power BI.
- Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center: Multiple services including Cloud Update, Cloud Policy, and Inventory.
Everytime I refresh this page, there’s a new service impacted.
I am also unable to ‘sleep’ my pc after the last update.
My laptop sleeps fine after latest update… Of fedora
The raptor fences aren’t out, are they?
*Rename
*Insert at 0
[Copo-lit]
*push
Hmmm, must be dns
There’s a major Internet services interruption happening. I first saw it reported that Microsoft Outlook was down. It looks like the problem has spread to other Microsoft services, and also to other companies’ services.
After recently moving everything to self hosted I never even noticed. Helps being unemployed from the tech industry so I am not forced to use any corpotrash.
Yep, outside of work I moved on from all proprietary tech were possible. So anything of mine is just plodding along like normal. But I am watching the corporate world burn like Nero on the roof. Good times.
Yep, lol. Absolutely everything I use is fully up and operational. Sucks to be corpo.
At least the status page is loading now.
Should have used Linux
basically all microsoft service backends do run on linux unfortunately
Oh snaps
No, they probably shouldn’t use snap packages. Not only are they semi-proprietary, they’re also very inefficient.
NetBSD then?
Me, a self-hoster, laughing at DownDetector then crying because my job still relies on Microsoft
Yep, we try to protect ourselves but alas are dependent on others. Eventually their problems become our problems.
Even steam’s “down” and they aren’t sloppers. What’s going on? is it cloudflare + MS Azure?
People going “welp guess I might as well boot a quick game”? Lol
Could be network traffic overload, imagine all global M365 users continuously and rather aggressively retrying to fetch mail etc
