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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by seekbeak on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:54PM (#19030678)
I love how they are just "turning it off and on again".
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by SteveNuts on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:36PM (#19031026)
That's literally the fix for almost anything Microsoft. If it goes any further than that it's "Restore from backup".
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by peterwwillis on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:52PM (#19031532)
It's pretty common practice for complex systems. If it's already dead, and nobody knows what's wrong or how to fix it, you try restarting it. (normally you first redirect traffic to a different region, but apparently big orgs are still running critical infrastructure with changes that affect all regions and can't be backed out)
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by londons_explore on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:34AM (#19034020)
Kubernetes doesn't even have a "restart this deployment" ability...
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by reaperducer on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:54PM (#19031150)
"Thank you for calling 310-DELL. Have to tried restarting your computer?"

(Older Canadian tech types should recognize that.)

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