Published 15:16 IST, September 29th 2020

Microsoft faces nationwide outage; Know everything about Microsoft outage

Microsoft outage was observed nationwide. Users from every corner were facing issues with authentication. Learn more about Microsoft nationwide outage here.

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Microsoft has undergone a nation-wide outage recently. An update rolled out by company led to an outage in Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Teams, and Outlook. outage was felt nationwide, as people from all over country faced auntication issues and weren’t able to log in to ir Microsoft services. Re on:

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Microsoft Nationwide outage

Microsoft is currently investigating reason for outage. For time being, y have blamed update y rolled out as cause for outage. Microsoft is trying to pinpoint what exactly was reason for issues that were caused. Microsoft services users were having auntication issues and were not able to log in to ir specific Microsoft service.

Users that were alrey in session with ir Microsoft service were only ones who could still access. Users that were trying to start a new session were welcomed by a transient error. Every user was faced with error code ASTS 90033, which is a transient error and was causing trouble for users to sign in to ir services.

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Microsoft’s statement about outage

Microsoft didn’t leave its users in dark. It kept tweeting about developments and issues on ir Microsoft 365 status account. y were working on a fix and took around 6 hours to figure issue out and put a stop to outage.

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y tweeted, “We're investigating an issue affecting access to multiple Microsoft 365 services. We're working to identify full impact and will provide more information shortly”. y posted a lot more tweets on same thre, underlining issues, fixes, and workarounds y were trying to pull off to get all services back online.

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Microsoft working on fixing issue

Microsoft was quick to roll back update when y observed that it might be cause of outage in Microsoft services. Even after doing that, y observed that all services have not been restored and users are still facing ongoing outage. After that, y went on to reroute traffic to alternate infrastructure. This was done in order to improve user experience and also create some room for m to analyse cause of outage and try to remedy it. After a long six-hour period, Microsoft was finally able to restore services. However, even after this, Microsoft still observed an outage for a specific region in North America and is currently working to find a fix for same.

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15:16 IST, September 29th 2020