{"id":11554,"date":"2019-10-20T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2019-10-20T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T23:11:09","slug":"microsoft-office-365-service-disruption-oct-18-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/10\/20\/microsoft-office-365-service-disruption-oct-18-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office 365 service disruption (Oct. 18\/19 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Azure.jpg\" width=\"86\" align=\"left\" height=\"50\">Since October 18, 2019, multifactor authentication for Azure and Office 365 appears to be disrupted. At least customers in North America are affected.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled yesterday (Oct. 18, 2019) across a message from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSFT365Status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft 365 Status<\/a> on Twitter that drew my attention to the issue (I've published a German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/18\/multifaktor-authentifizierung-fr-azure-u-office-365-gestrt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a> yesterday). <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Admins who are unable to access the admin center can find updates on the MFA outage MO193431 through <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4yJVZgAm9A\">https:\/\/t.co\/4yJVZgAm9A<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSFT365Status\/status\/1185211082941648897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The <a href=\"https:\/\/status.office.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft 365 Service Health Status page<\/a> shows since that day the text below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Title: Unable to access Microsoft 365 services <br \/>User Impact: Users may be unable to sign in to Microsoft 365 services. More info: Users may not receive authentication requests via phone call, SMS or within their authenticator app. <br \/>Current status: Our services remain healthy, and we've confirmed via continuous service monitoring that all of the previously affected scenarios are working as expected. Additionally, we're progressing through our investigation to isolate the underlying problem. <br \/>Scope of impact: This issue could have affected any of your users located in North America if they leverage MFA to access Microsoft 365 services. Start time: Friday, October 18, 2019, at 1:30 PM UTC <br \/>Next update by: Monday, October 21, 2019, at 7:30 PM UTC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that this is a major issue that causes this service disruption \u2013 it might be the 3rd incident with MFA within this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since October 18, 2019, multifactor authentication for Azure and Office 365 appears to be disrupted. At least customers in North America are affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,11,1547],"tags":[1800],"class_list":["post-11554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-office","category-software","tag-office365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}