Oh, Joy. Another Microsoft Fuckup.

Right, listen up, you lot. Microsoft 365’s Admin Center? Yeah, *that* one. The thing people need to actually, you know, *manage* their ridiculously overpriced subscriptions? It was down. For a few hours. Apparently impacting global access. Shocker.

They’re blaming some “platform component failure”. A “failure”? Really? That’s the best they got? Sounds like someone forgot to pay the electricity bill or maybe a rogue hamster chewed through a critical cable. Whatever it was, it meant sysadmins couldn’t do shit about anything in the Admin Center – no user management, no security settings, nothing. Just staring at error messages and probably screaming into the void.

Microsoft says they’ve “restored functionality” now, which is corporate-speak for “we slapped a band-aid on it and hope you don’t notice how fundamentally broken everything is.” They are doing their usual post-mortem investigation. Like that will actually *fix* anything. Expect vague promises of “improvements” and more outages down the line.

Honestly, I’m surprised it was only a few hours. This is Microsoft we’re talking about. It could have been days. Weeks even. Don’t hold your breath waiting for reliability.

Source: Microsoft Investigates Outage Affecting Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Speaking of outages, I once had to deal with a server room that was cooled by an open window and a box fan. The sysadmin thought it was “good enough.” It wasn’t. The resulting crash took down half the company for three days. And *they* wondered why I kept saying their infrastructure was held together with duct tape and prayers. Some people just ask for trouble, honestly.

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