Email doesn't have an outage. Centralized email has.

So glad I'm not doing user-facing IT support anymore. Last time something like this happened, my boss asked me to send an all-staff email explaining that email wasn't working.

I’m in IT, previously this would have been something that gave me heartburn; wondering when it’ll be back up, trying to figure out work arounds, assuring my users. Now? Oh well. It’s down folks, it’ll be back up when it’s back up, and there’s nothing much we can do, so no need to get your panties in a twist.

Something changed recently that I just don’t care as much anymore. It’s a job, not a passion.

Gotta find an alternative to Microsoft where at all possible.

Oh you can already feel a new normal coming on.

Start saving bottlecaps everyone.

I had such a quiet afternoon at work. Can't wait for them to go down again. It's Friday, come on MS! You can fail again, I believe in you!

Since this got such a surprising response, I feel compelled to write this as I find myself in an unexpectedly euphoric state of vindication today...

A year ago when my partner was planning her new business and asked me to do the IT I agreed on the sole condition that it'll be a Linux network, my sanity be damned. It took months to piece together from scraps of painfully obtuse documentation, and after some last minute panics and sleepless nights(weeks??) it worked. They have a full AD DC samba network, linux samba servers (DC & NASs all dual redundant) with offsite rsync backup. All Debian workstations all configured via deployed policy from the DCs. The scope got so out of hand it nearly broke me a couple times, but, ADHD... Everything is theirs, and everything is onsite.

I got a message today when she read the news which was just 'Everything working here' I took today off because I couldn't work out how to feel about it all, after last few weeks thinking I'd wasted a year of my life because as everyone in IT knows - no one cares what you did - but in just a day, it became all worth it.

FUCK MICROSOFT lol

So what do we think it is this time, DNS or SSL?

Edit: According to the BBC it’s SSL:

What Microsoft has told us is that the part of its servers that sets up secure connections is getting swamped, and once that happens the server just stops answering,

A family I know was recently laid off from micro$oft. I imagin3 their schadenfreude feels pretty good right now.

It made me think about how we are fearing the potential of a Carrington event hitting us in the modern era, how bad it would be and how much it will take to build back.

It occurs to me that we could just have a 'software calamity' of similar scale, since we love putting so many eggs in so few baskets controlled by people that want to ditch all their expensive intelligent caretakers and slop things up into oblivion instead.

also now wait for things to recover and the storm of emails

I'm happy. The emails I get suck anyway and maybe we'll get some digital sovereignty out of it. Seems like a win.

Honestly been great for me. Had such a quiet work day courtesy of Microsoft. They should kill their email servers more often haha

is this still going on?

do I have a snowday from work?

No one remembers the Anna Kornikova, Melissa, or I love you viruses.

I actually think it's negatively affecting my ability to print on my Bambu 3d printer