Microsoft’s Multi-Factor Authentication Service Outage Occurs

Microsoft’s Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) service strikes again, locking out many customers of Office 365.

Let’s learn some information about Multi-Factor Authentication outage in the post.

accounts so as to solve the Multi-Factor Authentication issue.

You know, Office 365 is one of the services using Azure Active Directory MFA to authenticate.

What Is Microsoft Doing?

However, some of the required steps may not be finished until January 2019.

From the Azure status page, you know the mitigation measure has started.

Currently, engineers are in the process of cycling backend services responsible for processing MFA requests.

And the mitigation move is being pushed out region by region and many regions have already finished.

After each region completes, engineers will reassess impact.

Reportedly, a Domain Name System (DNS) issue gives rise to sign-in requests to fail.

Now, the issue is mitigatory and they are restating the authentication infrastructure.

Microsoft should learn the lesson and roll out more stable services to customers.