Office 365 outage Thursday night

Any major cloud service outage is bad, but good communications can make it less stressful. Microsoft did OK with last night's Exchange Online outage.

My personal domain is run on Office 365. I've generally been very happy with it, but last night was one of those times that makes for unhappy customers: a major outage.

Late in the evening email just stopped working. Multiple computers and devices on different networks were all timing out on Exchange Activesync access so it seemed pretty clearly to be the service. I also couldn't log into the Office 365 web portal.

At this point, my first thought was to check the Office 365 Twitter feed; surely Microsoft would post notice of a major outage there. But there was no sign of anything wrong, so I asked.

The Office Twitter folks seemed to know nothing about it, but another user told me there was a "major outage". At this point I thought to check the service status page for my account. Below are the content for the full incident last night. When I first checked, only the bottom 2 or 3 statuses were up.

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[sygnus21]

Seems this idiotic service has been acting up a lot - last couple of days I've had issues uploading office docs. Constantly getting can't upload file notices

BTW this happens on both my desktop (W7) and my laptop (W8) with all sorts of Office 365 files so I doubt the issue is at my end.

Depends.. are you using a third party firewall? A lot of times those can interfere with services like this. I've had problems with firewalls interfering with DropBox as well.

Thank you but I don't use "third party firewalls" and this issue has been happening on and off with both my PC's since last week. Anyway after talking with those idiotic Microsoft tech support personal they begrudgingly stated that SkyDrive was having issues with syncing files and stated "the issue is being worked"