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re: Outlook servers experiencing Major Outage

Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:35 pm to
Posted by Tempratt
Member since Oct 2013
15461 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:35 pm to
Eudora was great
Posted by Hold That Tiger 10
Bawcomville
Member since Oct 2013
26379 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:40 pm to
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Someone call Microsoft headquarters and ask them if they tried unplugging the servers and plugging them back in


We are on page 14. Do you not think that unfunny joke was already made.
Posted by OldManRiver
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2005
7826 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:41 pm to
Current update is a long winded way of saying “We have no idea, we’re all fricked”

quote:

Current status: 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.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
58089 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:42 pm to
I just opened this thread and went directly to page 13, so this is the first time I saw thst joke. I chuckled.
Posted by LSURoss
Dragon Believer
Member since Dec 2007
16905 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:42 pm to
If it's that important create a burner Gmail. Call them and tell them to email you to that email. The important email can't get out of the senders box either.
Posted by White Bear
Section 8
Member since Jul 2014
17911 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:45 pm to
Back to inter-office memos and conference calls tomorrow baws
Posted by Arktigers
Member since Sep 2022
1087 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:57 pm to
Brings back memories of the avoid verbal orders “AVO” note pad and interoffice envelopes.
Posted by jdd48
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2012
24334 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 6:59 pm to
November 12, 2026 - A day that will live in tech infamy. A series of high profile sex scandals takes down the CEO of one of the largest tech firms in existence today. The company that he started that basically controls AI globally right now. Less than 4ish hours later, Microsoft goes dark for over 8 hours and counting. Pretty surreal.
This post was edited on 11/12/26 at 7:08 pm
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
15469 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:01 pm to
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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.
Mine is 50% important stuff and the other 50% is what you wrote. Annoying as shite! Had a teams meeting today. After it was over, I get to enjoy 20 minutes of my phone dinging from people saying "Thanks".
Posted by TDFreak
Coast to Coast - L.A. to Chicago
Member since Dec 2009
9546 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:04 pm to
So has anyone heard if it’s a cyber attack or inept, low-wage Indian programmer employees who took down mighty Microsoft?
Posted by bountyhunter
North of Houston a bit
Member since Mar 2012
7312 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:05 pm to
Microsoft is dancing right now. Saying a lot without actually saying anything substantive either. Longer this sits the more I think there was a major data breach.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
13146 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:10 pm to
Or a hero who knew we needed half a day
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
16335 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:11 pm to
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So has anyone heard if it’s a cyber attack or inept, low-wage Indian programmer employees who took down mighty Microsoft?



The theory I have seen thrown around a lot now AI did some update and they can't figure out how to undo it. I have zero kowledge of this stuff.
Posted by CapitalTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Sep 2019
886 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:11 pm to
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We are on page 14. Do you not think that unfunny joke was already made.


Probably the longest thread in TD history.
Posted by TakingStock
Member since Jun 2009
7731 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:13 pm to
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The theory I have seen thrown around a lot now AI did some update and they can't figure out how to undo it. I have zero kowledge of this stuff.


Yes, I’m reading a lot about a rogue AI agent.
Posted by Marlboro Smooth
Member since Dec 2025
319 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:14 pm to
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The theory I have seen thrown around a lot now AI did some update and they can't figure out how to undo it. I have zero kowledge of this stuff.



That would be really bad because apparently Outlook is such a jumbled mess of put together spaghetti code that no one is even around to know what any of it means anymore. Its like the Tax Code.

If they break it and can't roll it back its over.
Posted by BayouBandit24
Member since Aug 2010
17407 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:16 pm to
Seems plausible. The most recent update says: “we've begun reverting a recent network configuration change that correlates with the start of impact and are monitoring to determine whether this contributes to recovery.”
Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
71561 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:18 pm to
quote:

The theory I have seen thrown around a lot now AI did some update and they can't figure out how to undo it. I have zero kowledge of this stuff.

Basically this. They've tried several fixes, including rolling back updates, and that hasn't worked. They're probably going to find out somebody was vibe coding with Copilot and bricked the system.
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
16335 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:18 pm to
quote:

Yes, I’m reading a lot about a rogue AI agent.


Maybe not rouge but it just did something wrong.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
47449 posts
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:20 pm to
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Yes, I’m reading a lot about a rogue AI agent.


The problem is the media will make this a million times more nefarious than it actually is.

A "rogue AI agent" isn't nearly as cool or scary as it sounds.

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