Tag Archives: outages

Outages can be extremely detrimental to business operations which is why Microsoft has announced that it will extend its “outage mode” in Azure to cover both web-based and desktop applications.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is the software giant’s cloud directory responsible for handling authentication for Office 365 though it can also be linked to on-premises Active Directory. However, when it goes down, Microsoft customers are unable to access the Azure Portal to manage their cloud services.

02 November 2020 at 15:10 UTC

Updated: 02 November 2020 at 15:13 UTC

Missing order information and setting changes are apparently hampering recovery efforts

EXCLUSIVE A recent ransomware attack on a third-party software management tool caused outages for customers of e-commerce platform provider X-Cart.

The disruption, which sparked anguish and frustration among customers on X-Cart’s private forum, prompted one participant on the message board to tip off The Daily Swig.

Our tipster, who asked to remain anonymous, said X-Cart had to restore systems from backups, adding that there may be a time gaps since the last restoration that means data will be lost as a result of the…