Don't like Mondays? Neither does Microsoft 364's Outlook Exchange Online service
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/15/outlook_down/
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The European failure appears to have blanketed much of the continent as Outlook users (connecting to the company's Exchange Online service) found themselves unable to connect.
The problem looks to have started at around 14:00 British Summer Time (BST) and the company acknowledged at 14:27 local time (13:27 UTC) that the cockup fairy had a paid a visit to Redmond's European tentacle.
We're investigating an issue with the Outlook client within Europe. Please follow EX216336 in your dashboard for further information. — Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) [2]June 15, 2020
The problem appears intermittent, and some users have reported success with the mobile and web clients rather than the full-fat Outlook app. Others have simply done the digital equivalent of putting their head in their hands, wishing for the good old days when they had their own Exchange Server crashing quietly in the corner of the data centre.
Microsoft promised an update on the borkage by 16:00 BST, once it has given the telemetry from its systems a jolly good reviewing in efforts to isolate the source of the issue.
The company hasn't been having a great run of it of late. Teams [3]took a tumble back in February and large chunks of Azure infamously buckled under the sudden wave of remote workers. More recently, even [4]GitHub has found it hard to swerve a slap from the hand of bork.
It's unfortunate, particularly as the company continues to encourage customers to sign up for a cloudy future in its data centres.
Still, it's good to see that even if Exchange has been prised from the clutches of an on-prem BOFH, the gods of TITSUP are still on hand to ensure a long lunch beckons for European Outlook jockeys at least. ®
* Total Inability to Support Usual Productivity
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/microsoft_365_outage_australia_new_zealand/
[2] https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1272521166142484480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/03/teams_down/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/23/github_wobble/
[5] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8478/why-container-security-matters-to-your-business?td=wptl1956
Total Inability to Support Usual Productivity
The trouble is "usual productivity" when it comes to Orifice is pretty damned dire
Microsoft 364...
Thats being generous.
Wait... An outage?
Unfortunately I was not affected.
How I know?
Well, a co-worker dispatched no less than 20 (perhaps even 30) meeting invitations for our daily standup meeting. ...and she did that while I was busy clicking 'No, bloody fcking NO!' on her previous batch of invites. Watching the new avalanche of invites was surreal.
A mutual colleague tried giving her some pointers the first time this happened, and her reply was something along the line of setting up rules in outlook to filter incoming e-mail. Which he did. So he no longer reads anything dispatched by the mistress of mail missive avalanches. He also decided to move to another division of the company, making sure that his and her paths would never cross again.
Ah The Cloud
What a perfect excuse not to get any work done because the Rejects of Redmond buggered something again.