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Re:Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate by outworlder on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:45PM (#22228150)
> The organisational challenge is to get the message through to someone who understands it and will act on it.

Yes, and to keep a very infrequently used channel working and up-to-date.

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Re:Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate by brongondwana on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:43PM (#22228798)
This is why letsencrypt very sensibly creates short-lived certificates, meaning that the channel is not infrequently used.
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Re:Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate by inimino on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:45PM (#22228839)
The channel only needs to be used when the automated process breaks.
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Re:Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate by brongondwana on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:05PM (#22229075)
Oh right - yeah, that sucks. Rarely used processes often break.

Hence efforts like https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8701 - designed to make sure extensibility options don't get messed up.

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