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Microsoft Azure customers' virtual machines running Ubuntu 18.04 have been taken offline by an ongoing outage caused by a faulty systemd update. Microsoft says in an incident report published on the Azure status page that these DNS issues only affect VMs running Ubuntu 18.04.
An ongoing outage affects multiple Microsoft 365 services, blocking users from connecting to Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, Outlook desktop clients, and OneDrive for Business. While Microsoft says that this incident has only affected customers in the EMEA region, users have been reporting server connection issues and sign-in failures worldwide.
United Kingdom's National Health Service 111 emergency services are affected by a significant and ongoing outage triggered by a cyberattack that hit the systems of British managed service provider Advanced. Advanced's Adastra client patient management solution, which is used by 85% of NHS 111 services, has been hit by a major outage together with several other services provided by the MSP, according to a status page.
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident impacting administrators in North America who report seeing blank pages and 404 errors when trying to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.This outage could affect any admin in North America, as the company revealed on the Microsoft 365 Service health status page.
In a preliminary post-incident report, Microsoft has revealed that this week's 5-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was triggered by a faulty Enterprise Configuration Service deployment that led to cascading failures and availability impact across multiple regions. ECS is an internal central configuration repository designed to enable Microsoft services to make wide-scope dynamic changes across multiple services and features, as well as targeted ones such as specific configurations per tenant or user.
What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, including Exchange Online, Windows 365, and Office Online."We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features," the company revealed on its official Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account more than 8 hours ago.
An ongoing heatwave in the United Kingdom has led to Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud outages after cooling systems failed at the companies' data centers. Today, with temperatures reaching a record-breaking 40.2 degrees Celsius, cooling systems at data centers used by Google and Oracle to host their cloud infrastructure have begun to fail.
Admins were also told that they could find more information regarding these ongoing problems in the admin center under EX401976 and OL401977. While Redmond did not reveal the scale of the issue, thousands of reports have been submitted in the past 24 hours on DownDetector by Outlook and Exchange Online users who have either been unable or experienced difficulties when trying to log in or email.
While the Twitter API status page shows no issues for today, almost 55,000 users have reported over the past 30 minutes that that the service is not working. At the time of writing, the browser version of the Twitter app is showing the typical "Something went wrong, but don't fret - it's not your fault" errors.
Over the weekend, Rogers Communications CEO Tony Staffieri revealed the telecom company believes a maintenance update was what caused last week's massive outage. "We now believe we've narrowed the cause to a network system failure following a maintenance update in our core network, which caused some of our routers to malfunction early Friday morning," Staffieri said in a statement published Saturday.