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Office 365 Users in Europe, Asia, and Americas Who Have Enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Are Impacted by an Outage (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-report dept.

New submitter neo00 writes: Office 365 users in Europe, Asia, and Americas are impacted by a wide-spread outage causing users who have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled by default policy to be unable to login to Office 365 and other services reliant on Azure Active Directory. According to The Register: "Microsoft confirmed that there were problems from 04:39 UTC with a subset of customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific experiencing 'difficulties signing into Azure resources' such as the, er, little used Azure Active Directory, when Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled. Six hours later, and the problems are continuing."

The Office 365 health status page has reported that: "Affected users may be unable to sign in using MFA" and Azure's own status page confirmed that there are "issues connecting to Azure resources" thanks to the borked MFA."

Official Azure status updates are published here.


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  1. I'm relieved by bensafrickingenius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been battling this all morning -- took a break to read some Slashdot. :-) I guess I can stop battling it now!

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    1. Re:I'm relieved by SCVonSteroids · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Ever since we upgrade to 365 I get prompted 100 times a day for my password. Regardless if I ask it to remember. Regardless of any workarounds.
      Everyone here hates it too.

      I don't understand paying so much money for a product that works progressively worse with each iteration.

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  2. The Cloud! by TheDarkener · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Move all your productivity to the cloud, they said.

    It will be more productive, they said.

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  3. If it lives in The Cloud, by jenningsthecat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    then you don't own it, no matter how much you paid for it. Cloud storage, (where you can maintain local backups), is one thing. Cloud applications, (where you can be denied the use of software you paid for, either through technical difficulties or at the whim of the provider), are quite another. 'The Cloud ate my homework!'. Too bad kid, you should have known better than to trust your homework to The Cloud. You'd have had a better chance with the dog - at least he might feel some loyalty toward you. Microsoft and its brethren don't give a rat's ass about your welfare.

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