We all fall together. Azure MFA takes a tumble for the second week running

Tuesday 27th November 2018 17:08 GMT DJV

MFA

I suspect some people are beginning to think that MFA should actually stand for Microsoft Fuck All - because that's all its SLA is worth!

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1. Tuesday 27th November 2018 17:42 GMT DailyLlama
  
  Re: MFA
  
  WIsh I could upvote that more times!
  
  Have a drink on me
  
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Tuesday 27th November 2018 17:56 GMT Anonymous South African Coward

Did somebody forgot to apply the MFA patch? Or was the patch also buggy?

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Tuesday 27th November 2018 18:00 GMT el kabong

BOH-RING!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Microsoft fuck up, big deal.

Microsoft fuck ups cost you less than half a dime a dozen these days, or cheaper if you get them in bulk.

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1. Tuesday 27th November 2018 19:30 GMT Pascal Monett
  
  Everyone is getting them in bulk now, whether they want it or not.
  
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Tuesday 27th November 2018 18:22 GMT Anonymous Coward

Anyone know whether this outage, and the one last week, affect 3rd party MFA that integrates with Azure AD, such as Duo? Or do they bypass the breakage?

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Tuesday 27th November 2018 18:57 GMT Lou 2

Main Frame Alternative

What does MFA stand for - Main Frame Alternative?

Guess those CEOs that has gone full cloud are slightly worried now.

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1. Wednesday 28th November 2018 09:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Main Frame Alternative
  
  > Guess those CEOs that has gone full cloud are slightly worried now.
  
  The ones that chose Microsoft cloud anyway.
  
  The company that thinks that turning things off and on again is the solution to all problems.
  
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  1. Wednesday 28th November 2018 13:59 GMT hoola
    
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    Nah, no chance, a minor inconvenience that is forgotten about by the time the next large lunch arrives.
    
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Tuesday 27th November 2018 19:00 GMT JohnFen

Sure, in theory

"MFA is undoubtedly a good thing"

Sure, the concept is good. The implementation, however, not so much. The vast majority of the MFA implementations I've seen are not what I'd call "a good thing".

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Tuesday 27th November 2018 22:07 GMT Nolveys

At least it's secure

We contacted Microsoft to find out what had become of the service and the lessons learned from last week, but have yet receive a response.

They'll get back to you once they can access their email again.

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Wednesday 28th November 2018 00:58 GMT vtcodger

Microsoft is to be congratulated

I should like to thank Microsoft for taking a first concrete step toward a universal 32 hour work week.

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Wednesday 28th November 2018 13:29 GMT royprime

Enough of the Microsoft Fail Again.

So, the site I'm working with are not huge, they only spend just over £1275 pm on Office 365, however now it's been up and down over three days. Either the MFA isn't working or outlook isn't connecting or both. Ironically I was told by Microsoft to remove the MFA from the admin account so I could reset the other accounts, which I couldn't anyway as I couldn't login.

Main reason we went for the MFA was because some bot guessed some user passwords and their accounts were sending out some lovely bit mining software. In this day and age of GDPR where you need everything as secure as possible I don't want to keep telling our GDPR officer, oh yes one of our accounts was compromised again.

I've emailed Microsoft too, as surely by now us poor saps that are stuck on their products deserve some kind of compensation for this grief.

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