Office 365 having a big outage at the moment

Let’s take all our mission critical software and put it on the cloud under the control of another company! Brilliant! (Until it’s not).

You would think for such a critical aspect of their business (the cooling of the hardware) there would be some redundancy of systems

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lol...what is this 2016

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More like 2003-06

Yep, just looked into it:

"Starting at 09:29 UTC on 04 Sep 2018, customers in South Central US may experience difficulties connecting to resources hosted in this region. Engineers have isolated an issue with cooling in one part of the data center, which caused a localized spike in temperature, as the preliminary root-cause, which has now been mitigated. Automated data center procedures to ensure data and hardware integrity went into effect when temperatures hit a specified threshold and critical hardware entered a structured power down process. Engineers are now in the process of restoring power to affected devices as part of the ongoing mitigation process.

"Some services may also be experiencing intermittent authentication issues due to downstream Azure Active Directory impact, and engineers are separately working on mitigation options for this also.

"The next update will be provided at 15:00 UTC or as events warrant."

@jdd48...Amen to that. We moved email to Office 365 in 2011. This is the third major outage I remember in 7+ years. None lasted more than a half of a business day. For those who actually managed on-prem Exchange servers/farms back in the day, there is a large tolerance for days like today. Compared to what we get from and the little we pay to Microsoft, I could never justify to our bean counters (or myself) moving back to an on-prem solution. It just doesn't make sense for most SMBs including the one I work for. My experience with Microsoft Office 365 products overall has been terrific, FWIW.

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Sounds like a man who had to repair a corrupt .EDB file .. I feel ya.

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Worse. Defragging one.

Or in the old days when disk space was more at a premium and backup solutions were not what they are today, having the transaction logs fill up the disk.

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Not having to worry about getting Exchange up and running in a DR situation is well worth one major outage every now and again.

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If you have a direct circuit with a big enough pipe to your DR site and have a VMWare architecture utilizing Site Recovery Manager....it is actually pretty painless.