down detector always looks like this during big cloud service outages. i think partly because people don't actually know what services they're using and report wrong things, and partly because downdetector parses social media posts like "outlook is down but gmail still works" as outlook and gmail both being down.
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replyDowndetector is a survey, not a detector, and suffers from user confusion when a high-profile service is actually down, as users start reporting unrelated things
replyIt also suffers from people reporting functionally related (but not technical related) things.
replyAny other service that interacts with Outlook in some way will create downstream effects in other services expecting Outlook to work normally.
Especially when looking constitutes reporting (Schrödinger's downdetector?) and people look at everything after showing up for one thing.
replyI work in IT and people are complaining about Atlassian and about AWS but in reality if your organization is using SSO then that would get impacted.
replyIf your org is using Intune or Defender EDR then you probably also are impacted.
Entra is not impacted, SSO is working for non-M365 apps.
replyNot GitHub!
replyAs luck would have it GitHub sign-ups are down https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nwbjzl7nfrc2
replyTeams is working!
replyOr, rather, it's acting like it usually does.
I asked someone in our teams meeting if they were having issues with their outlook today. What followed was a 5 minute hate fest on outlook. I'm not a big fan, but was kind of surprised so many people genuinely hate it.
replyThe new version which is a skinned web browser is terrible
replyIf you could create a real world Outlook, it'd become the new Office Space fax machine.
replyYup. I just tried to search my chats for a specific phrase. It came back with nothing, even though I know I used it in a recent conversation.
replyI just assumed it was Teams being Teams.
Teams: Either It's Working, Or You Are
replyFunny thing is that my work's VPN that uses the MS authenticator just quit, immediately after I made that comment. So you are even more correct than usual.
replyRemember when Teams ate cellphone batteries like candy? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
replyI remember the first version of office communicator, that when installed, left you with about 6hrs of phone battery.
replyBack on Window Mobile 6.1.
Battery life usage quickly improved. :)
Right - don't get too ambitious! :D
replyDowndetector does not measure service availability. It's more of a vibes thing.
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