re: Outlook servers experiencing Major Outage

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We have grown too incessant on instantaneous communication. I wish people could take a step back and appreciate a delay in communication.

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If it’s not up by the morning I’ll call my primary clients and make sure they’re not waiting on anything and use Slack to deal with it.

And then look forward to 2 days of problems and ASAP crisis emails power dumping in my inbox when they get it fixed.

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Is this a good opportunity to miss annoying work emails?

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Why couldn't it be Teams???!!!

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That bit was pretty funny. I am old enough to recall mailing days as well.

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When I first started in business my manager and I had our own assistant that did all the typing mailing filing etc. We had to record our correspondence after meetings and notes to the file and she’d type everything up.

Also, had a call card that we could use at pay phones to check our email when on the road. Unless, you were allowed to take “the phone” which was the size of a shoebox …and that was only if senior leadership wasn’t using it that day.

When I open teams and Slack it’s 90% messages wishing each other happy birthday, celebrating work anniversaries or congratulating somebody I never heard of for completing some project that no one who is client facing or responsible for top line revenue has ever heard about.

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Good luck with your future brain cancer diagnosis

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I was a junior employee so rarely got to see it …much less use it. Probably more likely I got the herp from some slimy roadside pay phone.

Teams is working for me. Outlook is DOA

Latest update: "While the servers we've returned to service initially remain healthy, we've observed that they can become unresponsive again once they begin receiving traffic. We're analyzing diagnostic data from these servers with our networking and platform experts to determine what's triggering this behavior.

Building on the protective traffic management measures we've implemented, we're also temporarily limiting which types of traffic can reach the affected infrastructure in specific locations. This will help us determine whether a particular type of request is contributing to the impact and allow us to restore service incrementally. Additionally, we're rebuilding a subset of affected servers using a previous software configuration to validate whether this prevents them from becoming unresponsive, and we'll expand this approach to additional servers if we observe positive results."

TLDR - we are 8 hours in and still don't really know a root cause.

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And Air Traffic Control continues to trust floppy disks.

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Starting to think that’s a smart move

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Now maybe stop being a dickhead telling everyone how much money the company makes. It’s unbecoming

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I hope his customers read that and demand a rate cut

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Can’t believe Microsoft hasn’t rebooted their PC yet…

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Someone call Microsoft headquarters and ask them if they tried unplugging the servers and plugging them back in