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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.”  ... " 

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