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Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com)
Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting a number of customers. Many, but not all, of the customers reporting problems today seem to be U.S.-based. From a report: Starting around 9:15 a.m. ET, a number of Office 365 customers began reporting on Twitter that they were unable to sign into that service because of an MFA issue. Office 365 is one of a number of Microsoft services that uses Azure Active Directory MFA to authenticate. Around 10:15 a.m. ET, Microsoft's Azure status dashboard was updated to reflect the possibility of a cross-region potential outage impacting MFA. "Impacted customers may experience failures when attempting to authenticate into Azure resources where MFA is required by policy. Engineers are investigating the issue and the next update will be provided in 60 minutes or as events warrant," the dashboard status said.
"Engineers are currently in the process of cycling backend services responsible for processing MFA requests."
So, they're turning it off and back on again.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
Cloud is just a server run by someone else.
It also seems to be something Microsoft does fairly regularly. They have a history of catastrophic failure of services. If they manage to get this one back up, it won't be their worst disaster.
Remember not to trust the cloud: have backups because your stuff might be lost.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Choose how you want to run IT.
If you think you can run to the cloud and get better service you are mistaken. Like playing musical chairs you only move the problems and goal posts around.
There is no end to Management willing to pay through the nose for the promise of "Cloud" and following the advice of the providers along the way with little question, but when you have to build it on-prem you have to justify every blithering dollar you ask to spend and then have to face them trying to screw up your project plans with scope creep and "know-it-all" management interference and second guessing junior idiots.
In short, your shit is going offline... you want that reduced? Find quality IT pros and fucking pay them what they are worth and stop promoting high quality pro's to justify giving them a higher salary. If you need too... pay a helpdesk worker that gets their fucking shit done twice what you pay the others. It's that simple and stay the fuck out of their way... they are the professionals... not the fucking management. Managements ONLY job should be to make sure that money is wisely spent by make sure the teams are aware of talent and licenses product are not unnecessarily duplicated and that the nerds or silo managers are not busy fighting like children over stupid shit between themselves or other teams. Those are two huge problems but get very little attention in many businesses.