Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Chad Kelly
Nah, you can buy Office365 on an Enterprise agreement and get volume licensing. Though the push is towards Microsoft 365 which is Office365 plus Windows 10 and the enterprise security stuff all bundled. But given how rubbish the internet speeds are in this country I wouldn’t be throwing away

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
Admittedly I’m not super clear on this but I thought Microsoft stopped really generally offering O365 via ER and it’s now on “special request only”? “Free peering” is “Direct connectivity” FWIW. MMC > On 21 Nov 2019, at 4:50 pm, Chad Kelly wrote: > > Yeah for a small team Express Route would

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Tim Raphael
From what Microsoft have said, it appears like some internal networking is to blame. I would imagine O365 installations would still be architected into pods to limit blast radius. Intermittent and inconsistent service for such a large, distributed application isn’t uncommon to see when things

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Chad Kelly
Yeah for a small team Express Route would be overkill. Most providers on this list should have direct connectivity though As an example Vocus connects directly in both Sydney and Melbourne and so do Telstra. Microsoft are putting a significant amount of effort into their partner network they

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Troy Cowin
>From what I saw on our mail filter side it wasn't a complete outage - was >almost like it was rate limited. So mail was trickling through, just some >stuff - mainly things with attachments - took longer than others. I only had one person out of the 200 odd users we have on o365 contact us, and

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Brad Peczka
Microsoft have publically and openly acknowledged that they had an issue yesterday with their network platform. The fact that you did not receive calls from your customers may not necessarily indicate the absence of an issue; in fact, I'd say it indicates an increasing acknowledgement and

Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

2019-11-20 Thread Chad Kelly
On 11/21/2019 12:00 PM, ausnog-requ...@lists.ausnog.net wrote: > We just had a 8 hour issue with no emails yesterday I was at the Microsoft Head Office in Melbourne yesterday and was still able to recieve mail fine. I'd say some of these issues were specific to certain networks. I didn't get