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Re:Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'a... by ssss11 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:06AM (#50481071)
Bringing up clusters that are getting smashed the moment they’re online because of the backed up traffic?.. is it just exchange or AD failures behind it?.. could be quite complex with the traffic waiting
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Re:Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'a... by whatevaa on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:17AM (#50481182)
I guess you must do that electric utility does to avoid blackout - drop a lot of consumers and add them slowly back as things stabilize.
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Re:Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'a... by theapadayo on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:22AM (#50481263)
That would be the status updates about isolating traffic. Still can be hard to do when half of the internet is retrying their failed requests on your servers.
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