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Showing posts with label Outages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outages. Show all posts

Thursday, October 01, 2020

Outages and their Cause and Consideration

 Been a student of internet outages since our enterprise management asked me:  Yes, its great but what do we do when it goes down?   All computers and networks do.  Here am Just got back into Outlook, and then this came up:

An Outlook email outage affected web mail, desktop, and mobile   By Tom Warren

Microsoft’s Outlook service was down worldwide today, affecting Outlook on the web, Outlook.com, and Outlook on desktop and mobile. The outage started at around 2AM ET, after Microsoft has confirmed it was affecting users worldwide. Outlook users were unable to access their email, and Outlook.com was failing to load for around four hours.

Microsoft says a recent configuration change was to blame for the issues. “We’ve determined that a recent configuration update to components that route user requests was the cause of impact,” says Microsoft in a service message on Twitter. “We’ve reverted the update and are monitoring the service for recovery.”  ... " 

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Energy Grid Outages Addressed

Duke Energy is our local Energy system.

Universities team up on effort to improve grid for Duke Energy

UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center is working through three years of power-outage data from Duke Energy as part of a $300,000 federal grant to improve resiliency of the electric grid.  Including primarily addressing outages via new and old technologies)  ...

Read in Charlotte Business Journal: https://apple.news/AIhljZiKQR9uG6RWj39gGh