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Using Office 365 and can’t log on? (Again?) Looks like multi-factor authentication is down again
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November 27, 2018 at 10:01 am #236613
woody
Da BossFor the second time in as many weeks, I’m seeing widespread reports that folks can’t log on to Office. Mary Jo Foley reports on ZDNet: Starting around
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November 27, 2018 at 10:23 am #236620
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November 27, 2018 at 10:28 am #236626
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November 27, 2018 at 10:50 am #236648
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November 27, 2018 at 1:14 pm #236695
anonymous
GuestIn all seriousness, I get that stuff can break anywhere and that on-prem systems are not immune. As someone who has administered on-prem Exchange servers since 2000, I’ve had my share of issues. As someone who was also briefly with a company that migrated from on-prem to Office 365, we sure had our issues with it as well. The difference was, when you had a problem with 365, good luck getting support. It was all “open a ticket” and then wait for somebody at Microsoft to contact you with the cookie cutter support script. By the time you got anywhere, whatever the real problem was had been discovered and corrected.
I am not “anti-cloud” but it does irritate me that salesmen paint it as this panacea when it is not.
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November 27, 2018 at 7:04 pm #236767
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November 27, 2018 at 10:29 am #236630
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November 27, 2018 at 10:32 am #236633
SAS@HA
AskWoody LoungerI’m shocked. Just shocked, I tell you. Absolutely beside myself.
Oh, wait. This is about Microsoft. In that case, they’re meeting my expectations.
In other news, while I have not been bitten by Microsoft’s MFA, I’m the only one in our tenant who has it. I need to disable Microsoft’s MFA ASAP. We’re actually starting to enable Okta MFA to everyone, so as long as Okta doesn’t have an issue…
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November 27, 2018 at 10:33 am #236634
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November 27, 2018 at 10:52 am #236654
woody
Da BossYep:
CURRENT MITIGATION: Engineers are currently in the process of cycling backend services responsible for processing MFA requests. This mitigation step is being rolled out region by region with a number of regions already completed. Engineers are reassessing impact after each region completes.
NEXT UPDATE: Will be provided in 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
Last updated six seconds ago. Or so they say.
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November 27, 2018 at 10:35 am #236635
BobbyB
AskWoody LoungerTurning in to a “Terrible Tuesday” as the Gremlins from Redmond seem to be piling on the agony in Europe/UK as well according to the Register and did I catch rumours of another Patch about to hit the update chute this morning as well??
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November 27, 2018 at 10:53 am #236655
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November 27, 2018 at 10:41 am #236640
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November 27, 2018 at 10:43 am #236641
Bill C.
AskWoody PlusOh well. I find my HDD version of MS Office 2010 will work even when not connected to the internet. Amazing technology to have that retro-software be so reliable, accessible, and available.
BTW, I even get to control when it updates. 🙂
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November 27, 2018 at 1:26 pm #236703
geekdom
AskWoody PlusThis is absurd. Avoid regular panic. Get some software that isn’t cloud-based.
BetaTest {Got backup and coffee}
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November 27, 2018 at 8:04 pm #236772
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November 28, 2018 at 7:25 am #236855
geekdom
AskWoody PlusMany moons past, mainframe systems were the means of computer operations. All operations went through the mainframe. The mainframe was limited in capacity with many people logged on the system. Backups were done remotely by mainframe staff, charges to individual departments were doled out on per usage basis, and systems were slower than slow during peak times — during the day when all staff were present.
Please tell me how mainframe experience of the past differs from the new, improved common-cloud, monthly-charge-forever Office 365?
BetaTest {Got backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender TRV=1909 WuMgr
offline▸ Win10Pro 20H2.19042.685 x86 Atom N270 RAM2GB HDD WindowsDefender WuMgr GuineaPigVariant
online▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.746 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox85.0b9 WindowsDefender TRV=2004 WuMgr-
November 28, 2018 at 7:37 am #236859
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November 29, 2018 at 8:06 am #237053
mn–
AskWoody LoungerHey, with a mainframe you at least should be able to know where it is…
Can’t properly do the resource control accounting with modern software, like you used to have with a mainframe timesharing or batch processing outfit. Would be refreshing though, to have people want to optimize again for less CPU cycles and less RAM pages on the monthly bill… sheesh, almost did that kind of accounting at a previous job a few times, but fortunately the bosses never actually wanted it. (Was a software development and testing department… testing more, or grinding out more CPU cycles for a better-optimized final product, really wouldn’t have been good things to penalize.)
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November 28, 2018 at 7:38 am #236853
anonymous
GuestThis is absurd. Avoid regular panic. Get some software that isn’t cloud-based.
Cloud based is the worse idea ever. We had an outage at work and nothing worked
- Could not get MS Office to work.
- Could not get files off the cloud server.
- Could not get Project Management files to work.
- Could not get printers to work since using clouding print services. (one employee finally rigged up a USB connection to network printer to go around the clouding print services)
Five years ago, when had no cloud services.
- Could get MS Office to work.
- Could get files off the local server in the basement.
- Could get Project Management files to work.
- Could get printers to work.
MS services is totally down like everything else MS touch now.
After Bill left running it, everything went down hill.
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