Microsoft's Outlook and Skype Are Facing Outages (theregister.co.uk) 53
People from all corners of the world are reporting connectivity issues when using Microsoft Skype and Office 365's Outlook, they said on Wednesday. The users are seeing a "Throttled" error message when attempting to access either of the aforementioned services, they said. From a report: The weird text box pops up in the chat software and cloud-backed email client, preventing people from sending messages, and talking to contacts. This is, according to Microsoft, due to a botched update to Azure's backend authentication systems. The internal upgrade was introduced as its engineers brought servers knocked out by storms in Texas back online. Outlook Web Access is said to be unaffected. According to mailing list chatter among IT bods and other sysadmins seen by The Register in the past hour, as well as tweets and Reddit threads, the outage is hitting businesses and subscribers at least throughout America, Canada, the UK, and Europe. Microsoft Office 365 tweeted just before 3 p.m. ET that the company has rolled back an update that was causing the throttling. It is testing to be sure that the problem is resolved.
Re: Russians attack us (Score:1)
nah, they hacked and shutdown various nsa servers, users seeing the messages were having their content routed through them.
Re: Russians attack us (Score:1)
as reported on tuesday
hey, two nines beat one nine (Score:5, Funny)
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Hahaha... I remember being on Microsoft campus just after they released Windows 2000 server and they had those 5 nines posters all over the campus. I took it with a grain of salt but they seemed really serious about this.
https://news.microsoft.com/200... [microsoft.com]
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I can haz cloud? Or I can go outside? I can haz 364? I can haz error massage?
The cloud!!! (Score:3)
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Hey, let's all be dependent on MS to host ALLz OF OUR BIZNIZ!!! What a great idea. What could possibly go wrong.
I know, right? Exchange servers never had problems before ...
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Microsoft Qality Control (Score:2)
Microsoft Qality Control
I have Office 365 Outlook (Score:5, Funny)
I couldn't tell that the last day or so was any different than any other day. It's always laggy and sluggish and stalls opening calendars.
I'm more productive at work now that I'm forced to use Office 365's Outlook. Because I check email less because it's so incredibly shitty.
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A post Windows world in action, now your Linux is powered by Microsoft. :)
"Embrace the future."
Holy shit ... (Score:2)
So, in the middle of restoring a major outage, they decided they'd sneak in an upgrade? You have to be joking me.
This is IT 101, guys ... don't change two things at the same time, and don't piggy back on an unplanned outage to put in upgrades.
Is this the quality of Microsoft's cloud? If it is, I'm
Obvious solution is obvious (Score:5, Funny)
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not fixed (Score:1)
Dear Microsoft,
Still get authentication failures when contacting smtp-mail.outlook.com
Please build redundant datacenters, please test you software before you deploy it.
I know, you have to earn money so cut costs on testing etc but I'm trying to do the same. So please please please fix your ****** crappy o362 software. Fix your even more ****** azure authentication layers
And thank you for not informing customers about the problem. Always nice to read about them on a website. A service fee is after all not i
Absolutely no surprise (Score:3)
Anybody with at least a cursory understanding how MS makes software and provides services is only surprised this has not happened earlier. Apparently they have now ensnared enough customers that they can stop trying extra hard (well, extra hard for MS levels).
Updates (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, I guess it isn't just home Windows 10 users that get buggy/broken untested updates pushed to us.
Microsoft has never been known for quality, but they sure seem to eat their own dog food anyway.
Not much of a consolation but at least there is a chuckle to be had.
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That is where you are wrong: even bad quality is still quality!
Microsoft has always been proof of this.
Amazon outage too.. (Score:1)
Amazon (shopping website) is also having an outage..
Site is up but any searches for any items just yield blank pages with zero selection..
I don't have a problem... (Score:4, Insightful)
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I work pretty frequently with other people who are on Office 365, and I haven't experienced any incompatibilities in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. These are mostly pretty basic business documents, so it's possible that there are problems I'm just not running into because none of us are using incompatible features.
If you can, check the packaging to see how many computers you can install it on. My version allows me to install it on ~3 computers, but I know they changed the licensing at some point to only allow
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I'll take that as a serious question. The last time I tried to really use LibreOffice, I went all the way and installed only Linux on my desktop, and LibreOffice came with. I had never used it much before, but I had no particular bias against it. I created a PowerPoint presentation on my Windows laptop, and then transferred it to my desktop to continue working on it. When I opened it in LibreOffice, it fucked my fonts, formatting, placement, and just about everything else. My text was the only thing that wa
Only Idiots (Score:1)
Using the cloud has consequences, this is a relatively minor one.
How's the outsourcing of basic desktop... (Score:2)
... functionality workin' out for ya now? I'm sure the beancounters were all for it but how's productivity today?