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.

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Updates?

[Wowsers]

It's the spies just updating the software for the latest backdoors.

Update Pushed

[darkain]

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)

Re:Update Pushed

[Billly Gates]

No problem here. Update was pushed a few days ago for me and it was fine.

Re:Update Pushed

[Penguinisto]

...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.

Re:Are all Outlook users this pedantic?

[Penguinisto]

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?

Re:Again?

[Grishnakh]

Sounds like you should be looking for a new job.

Uptime

[ledow]

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.

Re:Are all Outlook users this pedantic?

[LunaticTippy]

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.