Outlook.com, SkyDrive service disruption

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Are you having problems accessing Outlook.com, SkyDrive? You’re not alone, as Status.live.com is reporting “technical difficulties” for services “such as Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive”:

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The problems (which we don’t seem to be having here) were reported at 9:01am (PDT – GMT -8), and the Status page promises an update by 11am. Are you affected by the outage? Any problems accessing your email or your SkyDrive?

update: The problems began at 6:49am, according to Status.live.com, and although an update was promised by 11 am, and the SkyDrive status has been updated to “resolved”, there has been no change in the status of Outlook.com or People.

Outlook.com, SkyDrive service disruption | LiveSide.net

 

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Update: Microsoft restores Outlook.com after three-day outage

Microsoft on Saturday apologized for a three-day partial outage of Outlook.com and said the email service was back up and running, only to note hours later that problems still plagued some customers.

Early Saturday, the Redmond, Wash., company said it had finally resolved Outlook.com's issues, which stemmed from a failure in a caching service of Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), the popular synchronization service widely used to sync smartphones and tablets with company email, contacts and calendars stored on Microsoft Exchange Server systems.

"We want to apologize to everyone who was affected by the outage, and we appreciate the patience you have shown us as we worked through the issues," Microsoft said in a note appended to its services status board.

Update: Microsoft restores Outlook.com after three-day outage - Computerworld