postmortem

  1. Microsoft Copilot Outage Sept 8, 2025: What Happened and How to Check

    Microsoft Copilot experienced a measurable service disruption on September 8, 2025, with hundreds of user reports and outage-tracking spikes starting around 8:05 PM Eastern Time — community monitoring and real‑time trackers flagged the issue and users were advised to try alternate Copilot entry...
  2. Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...
  3. Microsoft 365 Outage: Risks of Config Changes and the Rollback Lesson

    Microsoft suffered another Microsoft 365 service disruption this week when Office.com and access to Copilot were knocked offline for many North American users after a configuration change the company later rolled back, restoring service after several hours of disruption. Background The incident...
  4. Microsoft 365 Outage: MO1138499, Copilot & Office.com Recovery via Rollback

    Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack stumbled this week when users across North America reported problems accessing Office.com and the Copilot assistant; Microsoft confirmed a critical incident (MO1138499), investigated telemetry and network traces, and mitigated the disruption by reverting a...