Anyone else on Hotmail/Outlook? Its been down for over 24 hours now .

[toffee]

As I am not at work till next Tuesday, they can take their time fixing it

 

[fossyant]

Although it's working, very little coming through.

 

[BrumJim]

As I am not at work till next Tuesday, they can take their time fixing it

Email down at work, and you are on leave? That's like being ill on your day off!

 

[matticus]

It started yesterday around 18:00 UK time.

As Spen has kindly hinted, I was of course working in Australia when I had my Friday 13th thought.

Apologies for the confusion caused to those of you who had a lie-in.

 

[Sharky]

In my IT days, I was manager of a small banking system, running on an NCR mini system. When ever it went down or the system crashed, the pressure and stress was horrendous.

I can't even imagine the stress that whoever is responsible for the Microsoft systems, must be under.

 

[presta]

View: https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121266712884416537

 

[Gunk]

Fortunately out personal and business accounts are not hosted by Microsoft or Google

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

In my IT days, I was manager of a small banking system, running on an NCR mini system. When ever it went down or the system crashed, the pressure and stress was horrendous.

I can't even imagine the stress that whoever is responsible for the Microsoft systems, must be under.

Yes - that was my thought

I used to be in charge of keeping a while call centre system operating

when it fell over I tended to get a lot of phone calls

which was - naturally - a damn good way to make it take a lot longer for me to get the damn things working again!!!

Best example of good management I have ever seen was when I was a very junior programmer
The "Telephone Ordering System" - the forerunner of the call centre system - has a major fault

the main programmers were huddled round listings and trying to find what had gone wrong and how to fix it - in the computer room

The project leader got hold of a desk and parked it outside the door
in such a way that no-one could enter or leave without climbing over it
and sat behind it

He told us to try to give him an update when we could

and just sat there and answered all the questions from Senior managers as well as he could

and kept the people who could actually fix it away from "Managers"

He was a great boss - never seen one better!

 

[Wobblers]

Chaos? It is lovely and quiet here, and I can get on with my tasks without interruptions.

Other than posting on Cycle Chat, of course.

Surely posting on CC counts as work?

 

[presta]

 

[HLaB]

How it started

How it finished after full Self Awareness.

 

[katiewlx]

Although it's working, very little coming through.

I fear thats largely because its poets day (iykyk) and everyone decided early to give up for the day before it was fixed

 

[Shut Up Legs]

My company uses Outlook for emails and calendar, but I had no problems using it yesterday for work, so if there was any problem, I guess our tech support people sorted it out quickly. My home email is the excellent web-based Proton email, and that's very reliable.

 

[katiewlx]

It was report on Radio 4 to be the failure of just one computer. If that's correct, it's astonishing that there's so little redundancy in the system that that's all it takes to bring the whole world down.

I wouldnt trust the BBC on details like that, only a few weeks ago their "cyber security expert" claimed he had never heard of php before.

I suspect it was a simple line of config that spread from one "computer" aka likely a network router across their domain that nerfed authentication access for them, and then once theyd tracked it down, after probably fruitless hours checking dead ends for it, corrected the config which had no doubt propagated across their systems too so you have to fix that as well , and then you are dealing with all the millions of requests worldwide trying to authenticate and not create a cascade failure of the system youve just fixed.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]