Microsoft spent the first of September restoring 365 after an outage that took down Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot at the same time. Mail flow came back before search did. Users kept hitting failures across several services well after the headline recovery. The cause was a configuration problem in a core authentication component shared by all of them. That single sentence is the entire lesson, and it’s worth sitting with rather than filing under bad day at the office.

The sales and location-based technology professional will support Woolpert’s 10-year partnership with Google and help advance Google Cloud services and opportunities for clients worldwide. DAYTON, Ohio (Jan. 30, 2024) — Woolpert has hired Cloud Alliance Manager Zack Schreiber to help manage its longtime partnership with Google and its expanding Google Cloud relationship. Schreiber brings more than a decade of cloud sales, location-based data, and operations management experience. He will help define and promote the benefits of Google and Woolpert’s combined mapping and geospatial data expertise and will be instrumental in the firm’s execution of joint go-to-market plans.