Bleeping Computer is reporting that Microsoft had an issue that was preventing users and admins from accessing some Microsoft 365 services and the admin centre. There was a big spike yesterday afternoon in reports of trouble. But that seems to have reduced since then. Though I am still hearing of scattered issues today despite the fact that Microsoft’s status page listing everything as being fine. Thus I have to assume that these are just isolated incidents.
Jim Routh, Chief Trust Officer at cybersecurity company Saviynt, commented:
“When you’re a cybersecurity professional reading this update, you generally offer a sigh of relief since the outage is not related to a cyber security incident. The root cause is more of a rather mundane type of configuration change that caused the outage. There is always an opportunity to learn from these types of issues and the quick acknowledgement by Microsoft, along with their commitment to applying the lessons learned, is admirable for Microsoft customers.”
This outage appears to have been short in duration. But it highlights how dependant organizations are on Microsoft services. Hopefully Microsoft does all it can to make sure that whatever happened yesterday doesn’t happen again.
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Microsoft 365 Services Had A Bit Of A Problem Yesterday
Bleeping Computer is reporting that Microsoft had an issue that was preventing users and admins from accessing some Microsoft 365 services and the admin centre. There was a big spike yesterday afternoon in reports of trouble. But that seems to have reduced since then. Though I am still hearing of scattered issues today despite the fact that Microsoft’s status page listing everything as being fine. Thus I have to assume that these are just isolated incidents.
Jim Routh, Chief Trust Officer at cybersecurity company Saviynt, commented:
“When you’re a cybersecurity professional reading this update, you generally offer a sigh of relief since the outage is not related to a cyber security incident. The root cause is more of a rather mundane type of configuration change that caused the outage. There is always an opportunity to learn from these types of issues and the quick acknowledgement by Microsoft, along with their commitment to applying the lessons learned, is admirable for Microsoft customers.”
This outage appears to have been short in duration. But it highlights how dependant organizations are on Microsoft services. Hopefully Microsoft does all it can to make sure that whatever happened yesterday doesn’t happen again.
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