Microsoft Outlook, Skype, OneDrive Hit By Another Authentication Issue (zdnet.com) 48
Two weeks after a widespread authentication issue hit Outlook, Skype, OneDrive, Xbox and other Microsoft services, it's happening again. From a report: On March 21, users across the world began reporting via Twitter that they couldn't sign into Outlook.com, OneDrive and Skype, (and possibly more). I, myself, am unable to sign into Outlook.com, OneDrive or Skype at 2:30 pm ET today, but my Office 365 Mail account is working fine. (Knock wood.) I believe the issue started about an hour ago, or 1:30 p.m. ET or so. MSA is Microsoft's single sign-on service which authenticates users so they can log into their various Microsoft services. As happened two weeks ago, Skype Heartbeat site, has posted a message noting that users may be experiencing problems sending messages and signing in.
Are all Outlook users this pedantic? (Score:1)
Good grief, are all Outlook users this pedantic? (Learn to use a reflexive pronoun, 'aight?)
And why isn't everyone using Gmail or something better by now?
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Google READS all of your emails. Real email services like Microsoft are more secure because they will never read your email! [cnn.com]
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Don't get scroogled! [wikipedia.org]
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And why isn't everyone using Gmail or something better by now?
Even better - why isn't every self-respecting business large enough to have more than 50 employees not using on-prem email/MTA solutions, instead of renting it out to people whose outages don't give a damn about your schedule?
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Modern examples of google or microsoft sourced email has excellent spam filtering and uptime. There isn't any reason to do it yourself anymore. Sure, I could possibly manage a mailserver pretty well but it is a poor use of my time.
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You yourself should be nicer to otherselves themselves.
Updates? (Score:3)
It's the spies just updating the software for the latest backdoors.
Retaliation from Russia? (Score:1)
Can't sign into MS services (Score:1)
So they've finally done something right.
Update Pushed (Score:3)
Some sort of update was pushed out today. In the middle of working, my Windows 10 machine all of a sudden had One Drive show up in the system tray. Note: we don't use One Drive at all at this company. It was entirely disabled. They're up to their usual game of shoving shit down people's throats.
(Yes, I know, Win10 is shit, and this crap is to be expected constantly. I'm honestly only running it as a trial on a pair of machines while everything else in the business is still Win7)
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No problem here. Update was pushed a few days ago for me and it was fine.
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...how, exactly? Specifically, are you pushing registry hacks, specific GPO rules, or what? GP is using a pair of test boxes, so I don't expect him to have all the AD bells and whistles attached to his machinery. That said, some specificity is desired as to how you avoided the trouble.
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Sounds like you should be looking for a new job.
I just finished a skype interview (Score:2)
Sound never did work and video took several tries. Now I know why
I don't trust it (Score:2)
Impossible! (Score:2)
This is impossible, Cloudâ services are rock-solid 100% of the time.
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ÃÃÃ That's what they told me about Unicode! ÃÃÃ
Re: Impossible! (Score:1)
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This is impossible, Cloudâ services are rock-solid 100% of the time.
But but IT is a cost center. LOOK AT THE SAVINGS!
Obviously outages must not be important according to the bean counters who want the cloud to automate all of IT away
Uptime (Score:4, Insightful)
Technically, if I measure uptime for the Google Cloud, the Azure Cloud and iCloud against my in-house servers (which are nothing spectacular and most people here wouldn't be impressed), over the last three years, I win hands-down.
And that's not counting "theoretical" outages, but actual outages where it happened in the working day in our region for services we use.
Cloud is just another computer. Use it as such. Supplement it with a replica / backup / alternative.
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As quick as Windows Update.
What makes you think they'd target my Office 365 account rather than myself directly anyway?
And I can get another IP in about 10 minutes from my ISP, or use one of the multiple other ranges / connections that I have. Or just connect my phone.
That's at home. In work, it's even easier.
Nobody buys Microsoft cloud services because of DDoS protection of their office suite.
If anything, having a cloud office suite is actually the problem there. I can work in Word just fine whi
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Supplement it with a replica / backup / alternative.
Or be smart, and don't put anything you want to keep on someone else's servers.
Cloud (Score:1)
Welcome to "London Fog" everyone.
These are some of the reasons we have pulled back from the cloud.
Issues.
1. Don't worry we will get to it when we feel like it. (Hum, my internal admins never said that.)
2. Oh sorry we had to power your servers off for internal maintenance????? (Admin miss typed??)
3. Sales: You don't have access to Gigabit fiber for your company, Where do you live in CA? Potential Customer: Hum we are based in the Midwest. Sales: Can't find the town Midwest in CA. Where is that? Potential Cus
Explains all the errors on MSDN today... (Score:2)
Godless society and belief in "touch wood" (Score:1)
Completely off-topic, I realise, but bear with me...
Can some athiests/agnostics explain to those of us who believe in God why they usually believe in "touch wood" [wikipedia.org] / "knock wood" / tempting fate / fortune, when the belief in One God who exists outside of space and time, and created matter and the laws of physics, etc, makes more sense?
In Islam, the concept of "touch wood" is considered "shirk" (idolatry / polytheism) as it's assigning or giving an attribute of God to an entity or thing that He has created. S
Welcome to the cloud! (Score:2)
Cloud! (Score:1)
But of course, it's all better when it's in the cloud!!!!1111(one)