Global IT outage

Mm seem to be ok down here, but we are so far aaay people forget we are here.

Maybe we’ll just keep quiet and watch for a bit
 
Mm seem to be ok down here, but we are so far aaay people forget we are here.

Maybe we’ll just keep quiet and watch for a bit
This is what happened in Terminator 3 isn't it? There was a virus out and they gave control to Skynet to kill it...but Skynet had put the virus there in the first place! 😱

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Yeah, I managed to get logged on and hooked up to our secure network this morning but loads of our Microsoft servers were down.

Now my connection to network is gone and my laptop is saying I have no internet which I do.

No teams, no e-mails, nothing. Then I realised I’d switched on flight mode in error! 🤣🤣

Can’t do 90% of my work though due what’s been affected. My company will have about 50 emergency meetings before anybody takes any actual action to update anything too. It’s going to be a long day!

me too. gotta drive ten miles to install whatsapp on a customers phone (for the third time). cricket. taproom all afternoon. fml
 
Has anybody tried turning it off and on again?

Just reminds when my partner, in her new job, was running her first trading meeting.
There were a dozen or so of her new colleagues and she needed the lap top to for the presentation.
There was an IT problem so called the help desk and they did say - have you tried going out and back in again?



She picked the lap top up and went out of the room and came back in
 
me too. gotta drive ten miles to install whatsapp on a customers phone (for the third time). cricket. taproom all afternoon. fml
We have our meeting at 10am which won’t consist of anything beyond small talk as our reports can’t be ran until it’s fixed.

Hopefully get the grass cut before the cricket starts. I want the garden looking good when the Apocalypse properly kicks off.
 
Start time: Thursday, July 18, 2024, at 9:56 PM UTC

Preliminary root cause: A configuration change in a portion of our Azure backend workloads, caused interruption between storage and compute resources which resulted in connectivity failures that affected downstream Microsoft 365 services dependent on these connections.
 
Yeah, I managed to get logged on and hooked up to our secure network this morning but loads of our Microsoft servers were down.

Now my connection to network is gone and my laptop is saying I have no internet which I do.

No teams, no e-mails, nothing. Then I realised I’d switched on flight mode in error! 🤣🤣

Can’t do 90% of my work though due what’s been affected. My company will have about 50 emergency meetings before anybody takes any actual action to update anything too. It’s going to be a long day!
Do you work for CrowdStrike? :)
 
Can’t do 90% of my work though due what’s been affected. My company will have about 50 emergency meetings before anybody takes any actual action to update anything too. It’s going to be a long day!
Ha ha ha ha. Dear god I do not miss our RtOP (Return to Operational Procedure) meetings, 500 senior managers asking pointless questions, while us techies just wanted to crack on, then another senior manager would join the call as say "can someone give me an update please?" FFS we could have fixed it by now 10 times over!!!! I feel your pain mate!
 
Ha ha ha ha. Dear god I do not miss our RtOP (Return to Operational Procedure) meetings, 500 senior managers asking pointless questions, while us techies just wanted to crack on, then another senior manager would join the call as say "can someone give me an update please?" FFS we could have fixed it by now 10 times over!!!! I feel your pain mate!
senior managers/directors are generally absolute nightmares in these situations unless you have a good manager to act as the barrier between the engineers and them. The number of times I have had a director literally standing over my shoulder whilst I am trying to get to the bottom of an issue ... it might go more quickly if you leave me the feck alone mate and stop asking questions.
 
senior managers/directors are generally absolute nightmares in these situations unless you have a good manager to act as the barrier between the engineers and them. The number of times I have had a director literally standing over my shoulder whilst I am trying to get to the bottom of an issue ... it might go more quickly if you leave me the feck alone mate and stop asking questions.
You need to be bolder. Once or twice when working in a sub or control room with ever increasing numbers of non-contributors gathering I've had to announce "fault finding is not a spectator sport". They soon get the hint and feck off.
 
Ha ha ha ha. Dear god I do not miss our RtOP (Return to Operational Procedure) meetings, 500 senior managers asking pointless questions, while us techies just wanted to crack on, then another senior manager would join the call as say "can someone give me an update please?" FFS we could have fixed it by now 10 times over!!!! I feel your pain mate!
They’ve changed it up in recent times to avoid this stuff happening.

So they have different colour coded calls but I’m no longer on any of them, thankfully.

We aren’t quite in charge of the nuts and bolts technical side of things, as we do more Data analytics, forecasting and building reports etc.

I’m happy to let the tech guys do their thing and it’ll be a relaxing morning for me! 😄
 
You need to be bolder. Once or twice when working in a sub or control room with ever increasing numbers of non-contributors gathering I've had to announce "fault finding is not a spectator sport". They soon get the hint and feck off.

I've been the manager that acts as the buffer. I was quieter in my junior engineering days, but those days are long gone. Fortunately where I work now there is a more widespread technical understanding in the right places so it's less of an issue, I don't need to tell them to feck off any more
 
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