[German]Short remark for the morning (here in Europe) of January 25, 2023: As it looks right now (09:00 UTC), Microsoft is experiencing a major disruption to its online services such as Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, LinkedIn, etc., which have been unavailable or poorly accessible. Several German blog readers have just pointed this out to me (thanks for that) or are asking about a disruption.
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One blog reader just pointed out in the discussion area (thanks for that) that there was a glitch. I can access my OneDrive account, but access is pretty slow right now. And reader Stefan asked via email:
Exchange Online outage
Hi Mr. Born,
is there currently a major disruption in Exchange Online (and Teams telephony)? The reports are increasing – Microsoft has not given an official statement yet.
I checked allestoerungen.de (same as downdetectory.com) – there is an incipient disruption reported for all Microsoft services since about 8:00 am (MEZ) .
German blog reader Benjamin S. then emailed me some more ping requests to Outlook, writing that he's currently having massive problems reaching services from Microsoft over a Telekom fiber connection. Here is a ping request with timeouts:
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There are either massive delays or timeouts in responses. Benjamin writes: A phone call with Telekom's business hotline revealed that Telekom itself confirmed the problems, it was not due to special fiber connections, normal DSL – connections were also affected. He already had yesterday 24 January 2023 already the problem at the same time.
Addendum:It seems to affect users worldwide – on Twitter, Microsoft 365 Status confirms that they are addressing a problem that affects Microsoft 365 services. In the status area of the admin center you can find a corresponding message under MO502273.
German blog reader Andreas P. emailed me the following information from MO502273 (thanks for that). Was once again a network change, which is now rolled back.
Published Time: 25.01.2023 10:19:19
We've rolled back a network change that we believe is causing impact. We're monitoring the service as the rollback takes effect.
This quick update is designed to give the latest information on this issue.
Published Time: 25.01.2023 09:49:24
Title: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services
User Impact: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.
More info: Impact is occurring to the following services but is not limited to them:
-Microsoft Teams
-Exchange Online
-Outlook
-SharePoint Online
-OneDrive for Business
-Microsoft Graph
-PowerBi
-M365 Admin Portal
-Microsoft Intune
Current status: We've isolated the problem to a networking configuration issue, and we are analyzing the best mitigation strategy to address it without causing additional impact. We'll provide more information once we have additional information.
Scope of impact: Any user serviced by the affected infrastructure may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.
Next update by: Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 11:00 AM UTC
Published Time: 25.01.2023 08:51:12
Title: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services
User Impact: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.
More info: We've received reports that the following services are impacted:
-Microsoft Teams
-Exchange Online
-Outlook
-SharePoint Online
-OneDrive for Business
-Microsoft Graph
Current status: We've identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps.
Scope of impact: Any user serviced by the affected infrastructure may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.
Next update by: Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 9:00 AM UTC
Published Time: 25.01.2023 08:27:43
Title: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services
User Impact: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.
Current status: We're investigating a potential issue and checking for impact to your organization. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes.
BTW: The blogs here at borncity.com seems to have had temporary outages. Checking now the statistics shows something like a "user DDoS" – thousands of admins tried to check my German blog to see, what's up with Microsofts cloud.
from BleepingComputer in early June 2023 – Outlook.com hit by outages as hacktivists claim DDoS attacks:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/outlookcom-hit-by-outages-as-hacktivists-claim-ddos-attacks/
I read that – from what my contacts say "it's not true …" – missed the time to write a blog post till now – will see, if I havetime today (we have bank holliday today).