I would assume they've broken their DNS servers or some other similarly low-level infrastructure to the point where something just isn't resolving behind the scenes anymore.

I got a text message from Microsoft at 2am

Linksys sure did make pretty routers. Those WRT54Gs were iconic

Seeing Teams online was a let down for sure. I'm not sure how the company would communicate without it. Would have been hilarious.

Sadly my Teams seems to be working intermittently, and I can access the documents I need to read on SharePoint, so not a complete write off. Still, no emails, and especially no Jira notifications is a blessing.

5 emails instead of 100+, this last weekday is smiling upon me.

Microsoft Outage - heck yeah, that's their new flagship product!

First step is to reinstall windows on an clean, formatted SSD. Obviously

"with 7 years experience"

I woke up to alert messages from my company. Logging in now to see how little work I have to do this morning 🤗

Clearly a fake.

Didn't even recommend »sfc /scannow«.

"Hello, I'm a verified microsoft support agent, here to help you with your request! [3 paragraphs of boilerplate] Have you tried turning it off and on again? If you think this was helpful, don't forget to rate me 5 stars!"

Copilot, fix this outage, make no mistakes

...what? You say copilot is down too? Call the engineers. Where are they anyway?

...laid off you say?

Why don't they just ask Copilot tell the agents to fix it?? Oh, they did?

SMTP is about as simple as it can get. There’s no good reason for mail delivery to be affected. It should still be moving emails around even if you can’t access them.

But MS has extended SMTP so hard they have no idea how it works anymore or how to properly troubleshoot it.

The technicians who haven't been fired yet are probably waving a green papier-mache progress bar in front of their bosses' faces whilst insisting they're looking for a solution

So glad I wasn’t working today.

Maybe they tried to move stuff from Linux onto windows servers or they’re running defrag.

This kind of outage could have been prevented if we just centralized everything HARDER.

Should just post a question on Microsoft community support.

Just switch it off, wait a few seconds, then switch it on again. It's not hard.

Time to just FFR

(FDISK Format Reinstall, the old way to fix Microsoft problems)

You have to run it in the clou...

defrag