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Microsoft's Outlook and Skype Are Facing Outages (theregister.co.uk)
People from all corners of the world are reporting connectivity issues when using Microsoft Skype and Office 365's Outlook, they said on Wednesday. The users are seeing a "Throttled" error message when attempting to access either of the aforementioned services, they said. From a report: The weird text box pops up in the chat software and cloud-backed email client, preventing people from sending messages, and talking to contacts. This is, according to Microsoft, due to a botched update to Azure's backend authentication systems. The internal upgrade was introduced as its engineers brought servers knocked out by storms in Texas back online. Outlook Web Access is said to be unaffected. According to mailing list chatter among IT bods and other sysadmins seen by The Register in the past hour, as well as tweets and Reddit threads, the outage is hitting businesses and subscribers at least throughout America, Canada, the UK, and Europe. Microsoft Office 365 tweeted just before 3 p.m. ET that the company has rolled back an update that was causing the throttling. It is testing to be sure that the problem is resolved.
Renaming to Office 363 now.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
by DEEZ NUTZ
Hey, let's all be dependent on MS to host ALLz OF OUR BIZNIZ!!! What a great idea. What could possibly go wrong.
Microsoft Qality Control
I couldn't tell that the last day or so was any different than any other day. It's always laggy and sluggish and stalls opening calendars.
I'm more productive at work now that I'm forced to use Office 365's Outlook. Because I check email less because it's so incredibly shitty.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
People talk about alternatives but there are none that are fully functional. ie: $65 year, unlimited incoming/outgoing(NA) PHONE calls, including a real phone# for skype-in... Give me that and I'll switch .. MagicJack comes closest but they have excess quality issues and more importantly don't allow multiple devices to sign-in to the same account, which quickly adds up to being more costly than skype.
So, in the middle of restoring a major outage, they decided they'd sneak in an upgrade? You have to be joking me.
This is IT 101, guys ... don't change two things at the same time, and don't piggy back on an unplanned outage to put in upgrades.
Is this the quality of Microsoft's cloud? If it is, I'm not impressed.
Shit like that will get you fired, and deservedly so. I fear Microsoft is promising way more than it can deliver if this is how they're restoring service after an outage.
Have they considered using Linux servers instead?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Dear Microsoft,
Still get authentication failures when contacting smtp-mail.outlook.com
Please build redundant datacenters, please test you software before you deploy it.
I know, you have to earn money so cut costs on testing etc but I'm trying to do the same. So please please please fix your ****** crappy o362 software. Fix your even more ****** azure authentication layers
And thank you for not informing customers about the problem. Always nice to read about them on a website. A service fee is after all not intended to provide you any service .
Thx
Anybody with at least a cursory understanding how MS makes software and provides services is only surprised this has not happened earlier. Apparently they have now ensnared enough customers that they can stop trying extra hard (well, extra hard for MS levels).
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Well, I guess it isn't just home Windows 10 users that get buggy/broken untested updates pushed to us.
Microsoft has never been known for quality, but they sure seem to eat their own dog food anyway.
Not much of a consolation but at least there is a chuckle to be had.
Amazon (shopping website) is also having an outage..
Site is up but any searches for any items just yield blank pages with zero selection..
Meanwhile, I've been using my locally installed copy of Office 2010 without any trouble at all. I'm even blissfully unaware of all the new and innovative features of Office in The Cloud.
Use Office 365. Office 2016 is still available, if it weren't then only idiots would use Windows (inclusive of "because work makes me.")
Using the cloud has consequences, this is a relatively minor one.
tehehehe
While we all rely on third parties doing so particularly in total disregard to the threat that these companies pose over us leads one to having some responsibility for the damage done. When you permit yourself to become reliant on others you darn well better make sure you have a backup plan or minimize the threat that third party has over you via one means or another. Alone you can't do shit, but with others thinking like you there is some hope of not being drowned when another's interests are in conflict with your own. SaS (software as a service) bad!!! I don't object to services in general, but if the SaS you rely on is of a proprietary nature you are deserving of harms like this when they arrive on your doorstep.
... functionality workin' out for ya now? I'm sure the beancounters were all for it but how's productivity today?
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
Not quite at the level of XBox 360 yet
nah, they hacked and shutdown various nsa servers, users seeing the messages were having their content routed through them.
as reported on tuesday
A service goes down so they reach out to blame another microsoft team...
Anyone surprised by this situation?
...until something like this happens. Or a major fiber trunk line is severed by a back hoe. Or a server gets hacked. Or you are in an area with crappy/no internet access. Or the company goes belly up. Or when the company decides the product you use is no longer profitable....
Wait until Windows becomes 100% rent only (I predict by 12 rolls out), and M$ has 100% God control over your computer.
Micro$oft...how much rent are you going to pay today?
I found that the message "throttled" was quite appropriate, since I wanted to throttle the person who installed the "patch" yesterday, as I am sure many sysadmins that are forced to work with O365 did.
This is what happens when you tie your company into Microsoft for something as basic and simple as email.
Your business suffers and you do not get an apology let alone money from Microsoft.
The Helpdesk I work at has been getting thousands of calls due to the initial 365 setup let alone this issue in just the past 2 weeks. Now times that by all the other companies involved.
I suggest the name Seizure.