Azure outage hits Microsoft Office 365 users & websites
Azure outage hits Microsoft Office 365 users & websites
Microsoft cloud forced offline yet again
Microsoft Azure has suffered yet another outage that left customer
websites offline and the software giant's Office 365 users without
access to apps and data.
The failure also caused the Microsoft MSN service to black out as engineers struggled to rectify the situation.
According to Azure’s status page, the problem began at 00.52 GMT on Wednesday morning, affecting access to Office 365 and Xbox Live servers.
A spokeswoman said the firm was “investigating an issue affecting access to some Microsoft services. We are working to restore full access to these services as quickly as possible.”
While most of the problems were resolved later in the day, Microsoft said it was still investigating a number of problems affecting virtual machines in its North Europe and West Europe datacentre facilities.
“A subset of customers may see their VMs in continual ‘Start state’, and [a] limited subset of customers may have difficulty in connecting to their VMs,” an advisory stated.
One website affected by the outage was Surrey-based SocialSafe.
Julian Ranger, founder of the firm, told the BBC: "It's hugely disruptive. There's obviously an adverse impact when your whole website goes down - that's where people expect to download and access our service."
As reported by Cloud Pro, Azure was affected by multiple outages in August with users in many countries unable to access services, such as Visual Studio and its management portal.
A fault with the cloud in October last year meant that users could not upload using FTP services. In February 2013, the company’s Office 365 online software suite and Outlook.com cloud email services also suffered problems while the firm got to grips with networking issues.
The failure also caused the Microsoft MSN service to black out as engineers struggled to rectify the situation.
According to Azure’s status page, the problem began at 00.52 GMT on Wednesday morning, affecting access to Office 365 and Xbox Live servers.
A spokeswoman said the firm was “investigating an issue affecting access to some Microsoft services. We are working to restore full access to these services as quickly as possible.”
While most of the problems were resolved later in the day, Microsoft said it was still investigating a number of problems affecting virtual machines in its North Europe and West Europe datacentre facilities.
“A subset of customers may see their VMs in continual ‘Start state’, and [a] limited subset of customers may have difficulty in connecting to their VMs,” an advisory stated.
One website affected by the outage was Surrey-based SocialSafe.
Julian Ranger, founder of the firm, told the BBC: "It's hugely disruptive. There's obviously an adverse impact when your whole website goes down - that's where people expect to download and access our service."
As reported by Cloud Pro, Azure was affected by multiple outages in August with users in many countries unable to access services, such as Visual Studio and its management portal.
A fault with the cloud in October last year meant that users could not upload using FTP services. In February 2013, the company’s Office 365 online software suite and Outlook.com cloud email services also suffered problems while the firm got to grips with networking issues.
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Courtesy URL = http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/4645/azure-outage-hits-microsoft-office-365-users-websites?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojuqvBZKXonjHpfsXx6%2BgqX6C2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FScNnN6%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LBJM10ytYQWRnk
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