global-microsoft-outage

[fernandel]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/13/global-microsoft-outage-what-happened-and-why

 

[covacat]

did they try to turn the servers off and back on ?
or ask copilot to fix them ?

 

[SirDice]

Maybe related, maybe not. Timing is rather iffy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/11/11/microsoft-confirms-active-exploitation-of-new-outlook-zero-day/

 

[VladiBG]

The official internal report said it's not because of malware/exploit.

For those who had access the link is:

https://admin.cloud.microsoft/#/servicehealth/:/alerts/EX1550543

 

[Crivens]

Anyway, this looks like a slow day at work. Finally time to polish some things and (maybe) write some documentation down.

 

[mer]

"Put it all in the cloud" they said. "Use MS Office 365 online" they said.

I wonder if MS insurance covers paying the businesses that use their online stuff or if that is covered in the EULA.

 

[SirDice]

For those who had access the link is:

Still waiting for that confirmation code they've sent me. But I suspect that's not going to happen any time soon. Can't login without it.

 

[VladiBG]

SirDice
You can make your home subnet as trusted (put it as named location) then exclude it from MFA in condition access policy so you can login w/o MFA from the trusted location.

https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_AAD_ConditionalAccess/ConditionalAccessBlade/~/Policies

 

[jardows]

Jensen Huang resigns as CEO of Nividia, whose products pretty much run all data centers in the world, then on the same day many cloud providers start having outage problems? Coincidence?????

 

[SirDice]

You can make your home subnet as trusted (put it as named location)

Yeah, no thanks. Still have a Microsoft account linked to my hotmail address. Never use it except to occasionally look things up.

 

[ngnicholson]

Well our Micro$oft outlook finally came back up at 1.30pm in the UK. Guess the boss is going to look at a backup email supplier now.

 

[SirDice]

this looks like a slow day at work

Don't want to jinx it, but it is Friday the 13th.

 

[ngnicholson]

Yes that's what it is the Jerusalem virus from the 80's is back deleting all those exe & com files.

 

[SirDice]

Someone found an old copy of Kournikova and accidentally activated it

 

[blackbird9]

Whoever did the accidental activation gets my vote.

 

[scottro]

I use ionos for mail and I can neither send nor receive. I have a gmail account that is working.

 

[Crivens]

Someone added the signature bytes of some DOS aera virus as a comment to the bitcoin ledger, leading to delition of said ledger, forcing the bitcoin client to re-download that thing again, only to fail the virus scan again...