Microsoft Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands Unable to Access Email and Other Apps (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/01/2348212/microsoft-outage-leaves-tens-of-thousands-unable-to-access-email-and-other-apps
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/reported-global-microsoft-outage-leaves-tens-of-thousands-unable-to-access-email-and-other-apps.html
> "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in [2]a post on X ...
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> The number of reports that services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were down spiked after 3:30 p.m. ET. More than 37,000 individuals reported an Outlook outage and roughly 24,000 reported an outage in the tech company's 365 service, according to Downdetector, while roughly 150 users reported their Teams accounts were down.
One hour ago Microsoft [3]posted on X.com that "We've identified a potential cause of impact and have reverted the suspected code to alleviate impact. We're monitoring telemetry to confirm recovery..."
Minutes later [4]they added that "Our telemetry indicates that a majority of impacted services are recovering following our change. We'll keep monitoring until impact has been resolved for all services." And the [5]official status page for Microsoft Office says "We've confirmed that reverting the impacting service update has returned the service to a healthy state. We've entered a period of extended monitoring to ensure that the service remains stable, and to address any outstanding impact to other Microsoft 365 services."
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/reported-global-microsoft-outage-leaves-tens-of-thousands-unable-to-access-email-and-other-apps.html
[2] https://x.com/msft365status/status/1895950750750060583
[3] https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/1895957614099345849
[4] https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/1895969299476455827
[5] https://portal.office.com/ServiceStatus
That's gonna be a big problem (Score:2)
At least for those federal employees who need to be sending Melon their weekly report if they don't want to get fired.
Re: (Score:1)
Haven't they told 'roman salute guy' to fudge off back to South Africa yet?
Teslas are fugly.
Here's My Report (Score:1)
Elon,
Email is down. Here's what I did this week:
1) Investigated a naturalized citizen originally from South Africa for immigration fraud.
2) Added securities fraud to the investigation.
3) Added bribery to the investigation.
4) Added treason to the investigation.
5) Added election interference, voter inducement, and criminal incitement to the investigation.
6) Added obstruction of justice to the investigation.
7) Took the day off. I'm so sorry!
P.S.
We're trying to determine if this citizen is the gay, per a reques
Cloud Hip Hip Hooray! (Score:3)
So glad that the cloud is here to make all of our lives so much simpler. Three cheers for the Microsoft cloud!
Meanwhile... (Score:4, Informative)
I was able to access LibreOffice just fine, all day!
Re: (Score:2)
That's because you're winning.
Office 364 (Score:3)
Countdown 2025 begins.
Public service announcement (Score:1)
Email is not an "app."
To the extent email is an "app," well, there's your problem.
That is all.
Copilot didn't help? (Score:2)
Didn't their AI investments in ChatGPT/Copilot help them catch this bug and squash it before it stung?
Next up: Big claim from M$. Copilot helped them find the issue in a matter of hours on a Saturday afternoon, when humans were on a holiday. Humans were merely asked by Copilot to submit the fix it found and take credit.
Yet another Microsoft annoyance (Score:2)
I was curious why my employer's Microsoft mail server began demanding that we re-enter our passwords this morning. My secondary Microsoft email hosted through GoDaddy also demanded a new password.
The frustrating part was that even after the credential issue was resolved, email still wouldn't work until every computer was re-booted. Just another day in the Microsoft cloud.
Well (Score:2)
This certainly justifies all the telemetry, right?
Copilot ... (Score:2)
Someone at Microsoft must have asked Copilot to do their work for them, failed to proof it, and then pushed it to production.
Eh... importance? (Score:1)
Meanwhile... in other news... Ukraine are in a war with Russia, mon tae...
Why X??? (Score:2)
Why the hell are they posting their outages to X which has become the modern-day equivalent of Der Stürmer ?
Re:How do you break e-mail? (Score:5, Informative)
For those who haven't seen it. davmail (FOSS interface to MS services) reported credentials were invalid. The web access logged correctly but then experienced self redirects and redirected an error page failed at fifth attempt. As I was making configuration changes in my machine at that moment, I was confused if I had messed up. But finally it wasn't me messing, it just a web service that got Microsoft'ed.
Re: (Score:2)
I might be more critical than any other person I have ever met when it comes to M$, however in order to say that it takes incredible ineptitude to break any complex piece of software requires an incredible amount of ignorance and stupidity; in other words you must be incredibly inept to post such a ridiculous assertion.
Re: (Score:2)
Welcome to Azure, my friend. Of all the major hyperscalers, Azure is easily the most inept with handling change and often VERY slow to admit there is an issue when they fuck it up.
Fortunately, as Azure failures go, this one was rather brief.
Re: (Score:2)
How? Make it web-based with a single point of failure. Instead of a client-server model that was designed around intermittent connections and had built in redundancy.
Kind of a shame when we throw out decades of technology that works because it doesn't suit someone's concept of "modern". I saw the same thing happen with the rise of PCs and a refusal to acknowledge technology and techniques that mainframes have deployed successfully for decades. Instead we saw data centers and chip makers ignore IBM, Cray, Sp