[German]A brief information for users of Microsoft's Exchange Online/Outlook – Microsoft are once again wobbling around with a service disruption. Started already on February 4, with Exchange Online and will continue with Outlook on February 5, 2020.
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Since January 31, 2020, I have reported almost daily about problems or failures of Microsoft's Azure Cloud services. The last issues was the team failure due to an expired certificate.
New failure in Exchange Online
Blog reader Andreas P. already informed me yesterday evening by mail about new status information about Exchange Online (thanks for that). I haven't found anything on Microsoft 365 Status yet.
Exchange Online February 4, 2020
Here are the status messages of the administrator dashboard from February 4, 2020.
-04.02.2020 05:56:34
Title: Can't access archive mailbox
User Impact: Users' archive mailboxes may unexpectedly appear as empty.
More info: This is a continuation of EX199646.
Users' standard mailboxes are unaffected.
This issue only affects users who had an archive mailbox and had renewed their Exchange Online license or had their mailbox disabled and re-enabled between December 4, 2019 and January 11, 2020. Please contact our support team to expedite the reconnection of the archive mailbox.
Current status: We've deployed a restoration script in order to reconnect the archive mailboxes to a subset number of affected users. We're reviewing diagnostic data to identify the remaining users who may still be impacted and who have not received the deployment yet.
Scope of impact: Any user who has an archive mailbox and has recently renewed their Exchange Online license or have had their mailbox disabled and re-enabled may be impacted.
Start time: Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at 9:20 AM UTC
Root cause: A recent update to streamline the process of enabling and disabling mailboxes caused issues with archive mailboxes.
Next update by: Thursday, February 6, 2020, at 6:30 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 00:39:00
Title: Can't access archive mailbox
User Impact: Users' archive mailboxes may unexpectedly appear as empty.
More info: This is a continuation of EX199646.
Users' standard mailboxes are unaffected.
This issue only affects users who had an archive mailbox and had renewed their Exchange Online license or had their mailbox disabled and re-enabled between December 4, 2019 and January 11, 2020. Please contact our support team to expedite the reconnection of the archive mailbox.
Current status: We've reverted the change, which has stopped the issue from re-occurring, and we're continuing to gather data to manually reconnect the archive mailboxes for impacted users.
Scope of impact: Any user who has an archive mailbox and has recently renewed their Exchange Online license or have had their mailbox disabled and re-enabled may be impacted.
Start time: Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at 9:20 AM UTC
Root cause: A recent update to streamline the process of enabling and disabling mailboxes caused issues with archive mailboxes.
Next update by: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 6:00 AM UTC
There are problems with mail archives and e-mail accounts in Exchange Online – possibly due to a December 2019 change. Downdetector shows a smaller number of problems over the past 24 hours.
Exchange Online February 5, 2020
The problem is probably not over by February 5, either. Here are the status messages of the administrator dashboard – this time it concerns Outlook.
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-05.02.2020 06:12:33
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: We've reviewed the network traces provided and the results were inconclusive. We've requested that some users provide specific HTTP Archive (HAR) traces to assist our investigation.
Scope of impact: This issue may affect any users operating Outlook on the web during long-term sessions of 30 or more minutes via https://outlook.office.com.
Root cause: A recent change is unintentionally affecting how connection requests are directed to Outlook on the web.
Next update by: Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 9:00 AM UTC
-05.02.2020 01:53:12
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: We've received reports that impact persists after our attempted mitigation. We're reviewing network traces provided by affected users to help identify the next troubleshooting steps.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Root cause: A recent change is unintentionally affecting how connection requests are directed to Outlook on the web.
Next update by: Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 6:00 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 09:52:22
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: After a period of testing, we've been unable to reproduce the problem. We're monitoring the service to ensure that we've recovered the service fully.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Preliminary root cause: root cause: root cause: A recent change is unintentionally affecting how connection requests are directed to Outlook on the web.
Next update by: Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 2:00 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 08:47:12
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: We've made the settings change to allow connection requests to call to Outlook on the web via alternate infrastructure. We're testing whether these action steps have mitigated impact.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Preliminary root cause: A recent change is unintentionally affecting how connection requests are directed to Outlook on the web.
Next update by: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 9:30 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 07:48:59
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: We identified a recent change that modified how connection requests are directed to Outlook on the web. We're looking into making a settings change that will allow connection requests to call to Outlook on the web via alternate infrastructure.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Preliminary root cause: A recent change is unintentionally affecting how connection requests are directed to Outlook on the web.
Next update by: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 8:00 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 06:53:30
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: We're analyzing networking logs to gain a better understanding of how the requests are routed and where the issue is happening during the routing process.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Next update by: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 7:00 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 05:42:50
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
As a temporary alternative access method, users can try accessing Outlook on the web using this URL to circumvent impact:
https://outlook.office365.com/mail/Current status: We're reproducing the issue and gathering additional logs to help isolate the cause of the problem.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Next update by: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 6:00 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 04:34:29
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User impact: User inboxes may not show new email until manually refreshing or after changing folders when using Outlook on the web.
More info: Users may notice this issue after signing in to Outlook on the web for approximately 30 minutes from any browser.
Current status: We're reviewing client logs of affected users to help determine the source of the issue.
Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any of your users intermittently if they are routed through the affected infrastructure.
Next update by: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 5:00 AM UTC
-04.02.2020 04:08:23
Title: Inbox won't refresh in Outlook in the web
User Impact: Users inboxes may not show new emails until they are manually refreshed in Outlook on the web.
Current status: We're investigating a potential issue and checking for impact to your organization. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes.
The Outlook mailbox is not updated. Someone affected?
