Microsoft explains one Azure authentication outage as another one happens
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Three different problems came together to break authentication earlier this month.
To fail once may be regarded as misfortune; to fail twice looks like carelessness.
In a stroke of bad timing that would be comical if it weren't so annoying, Microsoft's multifactor authentication (MFA) system, used for Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics, has gone down for a second time this month, just hours after the company published its findings into a 14-hour outage on November 19....
