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I'm just assembling the non-comprehensive list of office 365 outages or login problems in the last seven months (r/sysadmin): 6days ago: https://www.reddit.com

I'm just assembling the non-comprehensive list of office 365 outages or login problems in the last seven months (r/sysadmin): 6days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ajavl8/its_that_time_again_anyone_having_office_365/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ajavl8/its_that_t... 1mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a4w7ap/office365_outage/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a4w7ap/office365_... 2mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ygjpv/psa_microsoft_azure_mfa_is_down_limited/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ygjpv/psa_micros... 2mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a0vepo/office_365_mfa_down_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a0vepo/office_365... 3mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9nbst7/office_365_outage/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9nbst7/office_365... 4mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9cuwhs/loginmicrosoftcom_down_for_everyone_or_just_me/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9cuwhs/loginmicro... 5mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9bihjl/office_365_down_for_anyone_else_uk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9bihjl/office_365... 7mo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8r9y3w/365_outage/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8r9y3w/365_outage...

PascLeRasc 8y ago
I love the top comment: "Pretty sure It's Office 361 at this point"
- mrmondo 8y ago
  If that, been an enterprise customer with a company that is a gold partner and been using Office365 for 7 years now - it's down so often we stopped monitoring it, easily the most flaky, unreliable, slow and poorly managed online service I've personally used. (Words are my own, not necessarily those of my employeer(s) etc...)
  - brobdingnagians 8y ago
    My company has a subscription and the search functionality mysteriously and randomly doesn't work at times, or is really slow... I have to guess which one it is _this_ time when it starts acting up...
    - mrmondo 8y ago
      I find the same issue, on several occasions I've done some wireshark / tcpdumps on Outlook (desktop) traffic and it was quite shall we say 'messy', additionally as we notice emails sent via Office365 at times go missing or just never arrive (with no NDR), a couple of us started inspecting headers of Office365 sent emails and found them to be bouncing around internal Microsoft servers with broken certificates and NTP so out of sync that exchange online (or whatever component does this for their system) moved on to another server until it got to one that was working.
  - setquk 8y ago
    It takes them forever to fix stuff as well. For about 6 months it had “Reply Al” instead of “Reply All” on OWA. Trivial but it shows how crap their QA is.
    - romwell 8y ago
      > “Reply Al” Maybe they're just fans of Paul Simon[1]: If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal I can call you Betty And Betty when you write me You can call me Al [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
      - setquk 8y ago
        Great reference :)
    - vezycash 8y ago
      They fired their testers. Now users - both paid and free are testers. Then they go extra-miles to ignore user/tester feedback. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft-bug-testers-unionized-then-they-were-dismissed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft...
      - cm2187 8y ago
        And also it shows they don’t use their own products (the Reply All typo should shock the guy who owns the UI). The one software the dev team does use is Visual Studio, and it shows. It keeps evolving, not frozen in time in the 90s, the evolutions make sense, they are user centric, pretty much every version is a visible improvement over the previous version (except vs 2013). It’s basically the exact opposite of Office. That theory breaks on Windows though. Is Microsoft a MacOS shop?
        vezycash 8y ago
        About Microsoft not eating their own dog food. Nadella used an iphone secretly for a long time and then openly and then finally killed Windows Phone.
  - nvr219 8y ago
    That's weird because I and all my clients use o365 and it works fine
    - altmind 8y ago
      It leaves very little place for interpretation(works for me) when most of these reports have a kb/issue tracking# in microsoft dashboard - check the comments for issue numbers.
      - mrmondo 8y ago
        I find most of the time when Office365 (especially the mail or calendaring component aka Exchange online) is down - their status pages all say everything is fine, if you contact support no matter what you tell or provide to them they want you to reinstall Outlook.
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - fro0116 8y ago
    You still can't actually change your billing country in Office 365 without starting over with a new account. Even support can't do it. https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/11214702-add-ability-to-change-country?page=1&per_page=20 https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-adm... It's a complete shitshow.
    - doppel 8y ago
      The same goes for Azure. Set up the wrong country / VAT / thing? Better migrate all your cloud services to a new account. No dropdown, no changes, no nothing.
    - realusername 8y ago
      It's the same on Azure, so I created a new account to circumvent that issue and then they randomly banned me for doing that.
    - fh973 8y ago
      The same goes for Google Checkout / Pay / ... or whatever it is called this quarter.
- microcolonel 8y ago
  Apparently it is, at most, Office 356.
- walrus01 8y ago
  It's maintaining at least nine fives. Not five nines.
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  24/7 Pizza called. They want their misleading hours of operation back.
  - trainingaccount 8y ago
    24 days a month, 7 hours a day, what's your problem?
    - nurettin 8y ago
      This is exactly how it works in italy.
      - keithpeter 8y ago
        http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/italy/ http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/italy/ Less (immediate?) satisfaction but people seem to live longer.
        cm2187 8y ago
        I guess unemployment preserves.
      - deleted 8y ago
        [deleted]
- acct1771 8y ago
  I see Office 360 written a lot, and I'm convinced it's not 50/50 sarcasm and ignorance, but we'll never nail down the ratio, similar to nature vs nurture in behavioral science.
- killjoywashere 8y ago
  9 in 7 months makes a pro-rated 15.4 days per year, so really only Office 350.
- ArrayList 8y ago
  This is HN! No joking! Read the guidelines! /s
judge2020 8y ago
0 0 1 * * kubectl patch
loteck 8y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of an actual comprehensive list that is being maintained by an objective third party?
- dfc 8y ago
  Some of them seem to be limited to certain geographic regions. (UK/Europe)
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PascLeRasc 8y ago

I love the top comment: "Pretty sure It's Office 361 at this point"

mrmondo 8y ago
If that, been an enterprise customer with a company that is a gold partner and been using Office365 for 7 years now - it's down so often we stopped monitoring it, easily the most flaky, unreliable, slow and poorly managed online service I've personally used. (Words are my own, not necessarily those of my employeer(s) etc...)
- brobdingnagians 8y ago
  My company has a subscription and the search functionality mysteriously and randomly doesn't work at times, or is really slow... I have to guess which one it is _this_ time when it starts acting up...
  - mrmondo 8y ago
    I find the same issue, on several occasions I've done some wireshark / tcpdumps on Outlook (desktop) traffic and it was quite shall we say 'messy', additionally as we notice emails sent via Office365 at times go missing or just never arrive (with no NDR), a couple of us started inspecting headers of Office365 sent emails and found them to be bouncing around internal Microsoft servers with broken certificates and NTP so out of sync that exchange online (or whatever component does this for their system) moved on to another server until it got to one that was working.
- setquk 8y ago
  It takes them forever to fix stuff as well. For about 6 months it had “Reply Al” instead of “Reply All” on OWA. Trivial but it shows how crap their QA is.
  - romwell 8y ago
    > “Reply Al” Maybe they're just fans of Paul Simon[1]: If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal I can call you Betty And Betty when you write me You can call me Al [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
    - setquk 8y ago
      Great reference :)
  - vezycash 8y ago
    They fired their testers. Now users - both paid and free are testers. Then they go extra-miles to ignore user/tester feedback. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft-bug-testers-unionized-then-they-were-dismissed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft...
    - cm2187 8y ago
      And also it shows they don’t use their own products (the Reply All typo should shock the guy who owns the UI). The one software the dev team does use is Visual Studio, and it shows. It keeps evolving, not frozen in time in the 90s, the evolutions make sense, they are user centric, pretty much every version is a visible improvement over the previous version (except vs 2013). It’s basically the exact opposite of Office. That theory breaks on Windows though. Is Microsoft a MacOS shop?
      - vezycash 8y ago
        About Microsoft not eating their own dog food. Nadella used an iphone secretly for a long time and then openly and then finally killed Windows Phone.
- nvr219 8y ago
  That's weird because I and all my clients use o365 and it works fine
  - altmind 8y ago
    It leaves very little place for interpretation(works for me) when most of these reports have a kb/issue tracking# in microsoft dashboard - check the comments for issue numbers.
    - mrmondo 8y ago
      I find most of the time when Office365 (especially the mail or calendaring component aka Exchange online) is down - their status pages all say everything is fine, if you contact support no matter what you tell or provide to them they want you to reinstall Outlook.
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
- fro0116 8y ago
  You still can't actually change your billing country in Office 365 without starting over with a new account. Even support can't do it. https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/11214702-add-ability-to-change-country?page=1&per_page=20 https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-adm... It's a complete shitshow.
  - doppel 8y ago
    The same goes for Azure. Set up the wrong country / VAT / thing? Better migrate all your cloud services to a new account. No dropdown, no changes, no nothing.
  - realusername 8y ago
    It's the same on Azure, so I created a new account to circumvent that issue and then they randomly banned me for doing that.
  - fh973 8y ago
    The same goes for Google Checkout / Pay / ... or whatever it is called this quarter.
microcolonel 8y ago
Apparently it is, at most, Office 356.
walrus01 8y ago
It's maintaining at least nine fives. Not five nines.
DonHopkins 8y ago
24/7 Pizza called. They want their misleading hours of operation back.
- trainingaccount 8y ago
  24 days a month, 7 hours a day, what's your problem?
  - nurettin 8y ago
    This is exactly how it works in italy.
    - keithpeter 8y ago
      http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/italy/ http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/italy/ Less (immediate?) satisfaction but people seem to live longer.
      - cm2187 8y ago
        I guess unemployment preserves.
    - deleted 8y ago
      [deleted]
acct1771 8y ago
I see Office 360 written a lot, and I'm convinced it's not 50/50 sarcasm and ignorance, but we'll never nail down the ratio, similar to nature vs nurture in behavioral science.
killjoywashere 8y ago
9 in 7 months makes a pro-rated 15.4 days per year, so really only Office 350.
ArrayList 8y ago
This is HN! No joking! Read the guidelines! /s

judge2020 8y ago

0 0 1 * * kubectl patch

loteck 8y ago

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of an actual comprehensive list that is being maintained by an objective third party?

dfc 8y ago
Some of them seem to be limited to certain geographic regions. (UK/Europe)

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