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Microsoft Outlook, Skype, OneDrive Hit By Another Authentication Issue (zdnet.com)
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.
It's the spies just updating the software for the latest backdoors.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Google READS all of your emails. Real email services like Microsoft are more secure because they will never read your email!
So they've finally done something right.
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)
Sound never did work and video took several tries. Now I know why
http://saveie6.com/
Don't get scroogled!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I haven't trusted outlook.com since they disabled my account for 30 days for no logical reason. I don't even remember what their excuse for. I'm sure they said something dumb like it was for my safety. They basically insisted one day I give them my phone number, and disabled the account for 30 days. Apparently, they don't think access to their service is all that important.
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?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
This is impossible, Cloudâ services are rock-solid 100% of the time.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Sounds like you should be looking for a new job.
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.
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 Customer: Really? It is not a town. Sales: You really need a minimum of 500Mbits for those types of services. Potential Customer: We can only get 50Mbits/5Mbits max. Sales: Click.
4. Don't understand the makeup of access to the internet in the USA. Companies don't all reside in large urban areas with high speed internet. Most companies in Midwest still can't get good cheap internet. (The great company divide) Cloud will not succeed getting smaller companies without this being fixed.
5. Oh, you have an account with us?
6. Cloud is just nothing more than a renamed hosting service with a few more bells but missing the whistles.
You yourself should be nicer to otherselves themselves.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I've worked in numerous instances of both approaches and the homegrown mailservers in general have been far worse, in terms of features and downtime. Expensive, too.
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.
Man, you really need that seminar!
Retaliation from Russia? Obama said we would retaliate for the election hack. Maybe now the Russians are retaliating against that retaliation. There have been quite a few outages of big cloud services lately.
The ONE time I go to log into my MSDN account in months and its tossing errors, not displaying my subscriber benefits, and even more errors when I would try to look at my account. Thought the issue was on my end - rebooted, still tossing errors... A couple of hours later I was finally able to get in. Apparently it impacted more services than the articles author even knew about...
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" / "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. So it goes against the science of the perfection of "tawheed" (Oneness of God or Unity of God), which makes a person outside of Islam.
The cloud does not fare any better than on-premise as it seems. Once such cloud providers issues are resolved rest assured that your ISP has a problem. Not much is gained running 2017 tech on a 1960s network.
But of course, it's all better when it's in the cloud!!!!1111(one)