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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)
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."
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.
I've been battling this all morning -- took a break to read some Slashdot. :-) I guess I can stop battling it now!
I am not left-handed, either!
I guess the upshot of having your business tied to the cloud is when you have an outage there is a good chance non of your competitors/customers/etc can do any work either!
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Move all your productivity to the cloud, they said.
It will be more productive, they said.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
People pay to use a word processor?
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
I never have to worry about crap like this.
Seeing as I am still running Office 2003 I also don't have to worry about endlessly paying for product I already have as well.
XBox live refused to authenticate digital purchases.
Windows 10 refused to authenticate activations.
Now Office365 refuses to authenticate 2FA.
Bad maintenance or are they being systemically hacked?
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.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
>And no answer on the most important part: Why a hotfix is required in the first place. Why did they, yet again, manage to get into a situation where Azure is FUBAR.
Its no big deal. They only guarantee a 99% uptime so they have still met there SLAs
This is why businesses required a 99.99% or better uptime.
Was this a physical problem such as an electrical/lightning surge - that happened once before - , modem/router failure, etc., or was it a programming "upgrade" in an attempt to fix a bug or improve efficiency or reliability?
And, does MS guarantee up time and pay for its customer's lost business or employee compensation because work could not be done? My guess is not, but don't know.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
That's a pretty lame excuse... paying for someone to blame.
Has Microsoft paid for any of it's screwups?
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Brilliant: First hotfix... not really working... Second hotfix......close but still no sigar.... Third hotfix...
And no answer on the most important part: Why a hotfix is required in the first place. Why did they, yet again, manage to get into a situation where Azure is FUBAR.
Back in 2014 MS decided that it no longer needed QA. All the QA people either left or moved into dev if they could. Since that time they've had one embarrassing mistake after another. Hardly a coincidence.
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... to word processing.
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If you're old enough to remember how things were in the early 90s, you know that the cloud is really a marvelous thing. It's astounding how far we've come in the past 25 years. The real challenge with 'the cloud' is making sure to put the right things in it, and perhaps more importantly, not putting the wrong things in it.
I guess my objection isn't so much with the cloud per se, it's with the toll-collecting gatekeepers who keep growing fatter on the artificial scarcities they create. As for 'the wrong things', I feel that applications such as MS Office don't belong entirely in the cloud. Using the cloud as an extension of an office suite, for sharing among team members, for file backup, and for running applications when you don't have enough horsepower to do it locally - these things I have no problem with. Using the cloud in place of standalone programs that can easily be run locally with existing and readily available resources - that I DO have a problem with. And it's not just the rent-seeking aspect that I object to. Perhaps more importantly, I am against centralization of most things as a matter of principle, because excessive centralization leads to non-resilience and vulnerability.
Yes, and office suite is a very good example of how not to do it - with the caveat that if you are designed from the start to be that way, ala google docs. Not that I am a user of google docs per se, but my kids use them for school all the time, and it works quite well for that purpose. But I have definitely noticed that even cloud integration with MS Office has all sorts of downsides. Even recently, a colleague and I were trying to create a visio diagram of a database, sort of a poor man's ERD geared towards developers/testers. With our cloud version of Visio, they had stripped out the database templates. Luckily we were resourceful and got an old copy of Visio2013 that had what we needed built-in. Not only is the subscription model a PITA for regular people, it is really painful for corporations. We have MSDN licenses, but we would have had to get special permission and funding just to be able to get the capabilities with the new version of Visio that came included in older versions. THAT is where this cloud/subscription model is going to suck.
It's funny to me to see things moving to the cloud, because everything USED to be centralized, then we moved everything to a decentralized model. Now we are going back to that. Everything old is new again (albeit more advanced and powerful).
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
The centralized, decentralized paradigm ebbs and flows like the tide. Sadly each time we change over the lessons are never learnt and we forget why we switched over that last time .. oh yeah last time it was ... bandwidth costs, patching, resilience , security, maintenance, costs and on and on