Microsoft Outlook, Skype, OneDrive Hit By Another Authentication Issue (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:20AM from the outage-report dept.

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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Uptime by ledow · 2017-03-21 10:01 · Score: 3, Insightful

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.