After 20 hours, the outage finally being mitigated Talking with Microsoft devs, the issue was NOT DNS (like many guessed), but it WAS networking I'm told the fix took so long because it had to be a forward fix... moving stuff from the legacy Exchange system over to... 🥁 ...drumrol... 🥁 Azure!! (impressive)Read original on X
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Microsoft outage was networking, not DNS, and took 20 hours to fix
Engineers moved legacy Exchange systems to Azure in a forward fix, which slowed recovery.
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Microsoft outage was networking, not DNS, and took 20 hours to fix
Microsoft outage was networking, not DNS, and took 20 hours to fix
Microsoft Outlook outage was networking, took 20 hours to fix, sources say
Microsoft says Outlook outage was networking, took 20 hours to fix
Microsoft says Outlook outage was networking, not DNS, and took 20 hours
Microsoft says 20-hour Outlook outage was networking, not DNS
Microsoft says 20-hour outage stemmed from networking, not DNS
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