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Yeah I keep hearing that office isn’t working.
And I am wondering why the fuck does no one open the local version, cause surely they wouldn’t be stupid enough to only use the apps in the cloud.
surely they wouldn’t be stupid enough to
Whenever these words are uttered, they're usually not true.
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Copilot, fix this outage, make no mistakes
...what? You say copilot is down too? Call the engineers. Where are they anyway?
...laid off you say?
It probably won’t be said officially but what are the chances this is due to some vibe coded slip?
I’d say 50/50 either vibe coded slop, or some sabotage from people who got laid off on their way out. Or both
60,000 Microsoft employees laid off = lots of technically skilled people who need money = a lot of stuff is gonna get hacked in the near future
It's just a big coincidence that software quality slipped at all the major software vendors in the last year or so.
100%.
"But Doctor, I am Pagliacci."
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They forgot to download more RAM.
I hope there is someone proposing to format en reinstall Windows like their forums always suggest for minor issues.
Switch to Linux!
Switched two years ago! Ironically that involved the new installation of an OS as well..
That's always my recommendation to friends with windows problems. 15% of the time it works every time.
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This kind of outage could have been prevented if we just centralized everything HARDER.
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DISM.exe?
Did you mean... Dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth
Dism/online/cleanup-image /restorehealth
Then do your sfc/scannow
And throw in a chkdsk /f for fun.
Those are just arguments being passed to DISM.exe
Well, if the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
Microsoft Outage - heck yeah, that's their new flagship product!
Have they try turning it off and on again?
Around 2am CST my work emails started coming through again. Can't wait to see how they spin this.
My prediction is that this is going to be spun in a way that's like, "See? We need more hyperscale data centers so this type of thing doesn't happen!"
Haha, I got to work and its still broken. I read about this last night and though damn why must it happen after I finished work.
Its STILL down! At least they can still claim 99% uptime I guess.
Two nines is a terrible quota.
Should just post a question on Microsoft community support.
"Hello, I'm a verified microsoft support agent, here to help you with your request! [3 paragraphs of boilerplate] Have you tried turning it off and on again? If you think this was helpful, don't forget to rate me 5 stars!"
Clearly a fake.
Didn't even recommend »sfc /scannow«.
First step is to reinstall windows on an clean, formatted SSD. Obviously
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SMTP is about as simple as it can get. There’s no good reason for mail delivery to be affected. It should still be moving emails around even if you can’t access them.
But MS has extended SMTP so hard they have no idea how it works anymore or how to properly troubleshoot it.
I would assume they've broken their DNS servers or some other similarly low-level infrastructure to the point where something just isn't resolving behind the scenes anymore.
SMTP is about as simple as it can get
Tell that to the "senior network engineer" I am trying to get to unblock SMTP for the server running our software on their network. Its coming up to 2 weeks now.
The problem with SMTP is that it is too simple. There is a complete lack of security, so different implementations have had layers added on top to harden them, which adds to the complexity. Not all layers are standardised or compatible, which means that what should be relatively simple becomes an untenable mess.
It isn’t something that can be proprietarised easily so companies need to also add their own proprietary layers in order to monetise their product, which adds more untenable.
If your “senior network engineer” is more concerned about your SMTP server becoming a SPAM relay than your product being usable for its intended purpose, which is why it is still down.
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Rumors are circulating that physical hardware is the issue and thats why they cant bring them back. They either bricked their servers so they wont boot or something catastrophic happened that damaged the hardware
So, they were forced to buy new hardware after their latest update but, like most of the rest of us, they refused? /s
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I went mushroom picking. This is how I hear that there's an ~~outrage~~ outage*. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit: fixed the typo lol,
edit3: fixed kaomoji
unrelated, but the correct format is ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯, you need to escape both the backtick and the underscores. technically you can leave the second underscore unescaped but it might couple to a random other one and turn half your comment into italics
anyway, hope the mushrooms are nice
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They need to contact the system administrator
Time to just FFR
(FDISK Format Reinstall, the old way to fix Microsoft problems)
Just switch it off, wait a few seconds, then switch it on again. It's not hard.
Why don't they just ~~ask Copilot~~ tell the agents to fix it?? Oh, they did?
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