{"id":23233,"date":"2022-02-03T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=23233"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:28:47","slug":"admin-microsoft-com-und-o365-admin-center-tot-3-2-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/02\/03\/admin-microsoft-com-und-o365-admin-center-tot-3-2-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"admin.microsoft.com and Office 365 Admin Center down (Feb. 3, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Stop - Pixabay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stop01.jpg\" alt=\"Stop - Pixabay\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/03\/admin-microsoft-com-und-o365-admin-center-tot-3-2-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Microsoft's admin.microsoft.com sub-domain is down, which means that many admin centers for Microsoft services (Office 365, etc.) are no longer accessible. Here is a quick overview of what is known so far. Addendum: It seems to affect Europe, Middle East and Africa. The cause is also hinting &#8211; an update to the cloud stuff went wrong. Microsoft is rolling everything back and hopes to fix the problem with that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg04.met.vgwort.de\/na\/a2fded88ba364415a8328e8cd125a2d6\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>I was notified on Facebook via both a personal message <em>O365 admin center is down <\/em>&#8230;. (thanks for that) as well as via the following post in a German IT, thad admin.microsoft.com is down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"admin.microsoft.com down\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/easwDFT.png\" alt=\"admin.microsoft.com down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you call the sub-domain in a browser, you either get \"The service is unavailable\" or the following message that the website is not accessible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"admin.microsoft.com down\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JEYwBl9.png\" alt=\"admin.microsoft.com down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/downinspector.com\/check\/admin.microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downinspector.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220207142127\/https:\/\/xn--allestrungen-9ib.de\/stoerung\/office-365\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allestoerungen.de<\/a> have been reporting a domain outage since the morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220207142127\/https:\/\/xn--allestrungen-9ib.de\/stoerung\/office-365\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"admin.microsoft.com down\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BbYM6k8.png\" alt=\"admin.microsoft.com down\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The disruption must have started around 9:30 a.m. and is currently (12:30 p.m.) still ongoing. The Microsoft website <a href=\"https:\/\/status.office365.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft 365 Service health status<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Microsoft 365 Service health status<\/h3>\n<p>Last refreshed 3 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Title: Users may be unable to access the admin portal User Impact: Some users may be unable to access the admin portal. Current status: We've identified a recent service update designed to improve user experience is causing impact. We're reverting the offending update to resolve impact. Scope of impact: Impact is specific to users who are are hosted in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Next update by: Thursday, February 3, 2022, at 12:00 PM UTC<br \/>\nPosted on Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:17:54 GMT<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accordingly, it affects users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In the meantime, Microsoft has not only confirmed the disruption on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSFT365Status\/status\/1489170822375911424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , but also named the reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSFT365Status\/status\/1489170822375911424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Microsoft 365 Status: O365 admin portal down\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mBZXA7u.png\" alt=\"Microsoft 365 Status: O365 admin portal down\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I almost choked on the coffee I hardly drink: Microsoft's technicians have identified a recent update as the cause. The update is being rolled back to fix this error.\u00a0 Now, the theory that Microsoft wants to push on-premises users to the cloud through bad updates is also starting to falter. That's the cloud up there &#8211; and the updates are also jerky there and throw everything on its back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addendum:<\/strong> It took Microsoft longer as expected, to roll back. The Register has nailed it down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/02\/03\/ms365_portal_down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> with the following text: <em>Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft's admin.microsoft.com sub-domain is down, which means that many admin centers for Microsoft services (Office 365, etc.) are no longer accessible. Here is a quick overview of what is known so far. Addendum: It seems to affect Europe, Middle East &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/02\/03\/admin-microsoft-com-und-o365-admin-center-tot-3-2-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,463],"tags":[64,47],"class_list":["post-23233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-issue","tag-cloud","tag-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233","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=23233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}