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Microsoft 365 services may have to be renamed to something with a smaller number, given that they have once again gone on the blink, with affected users unable to authenticate to, and access, them.

Users of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft 365 in Europe have been unable to access their mailboxes for more than a day, with a borked domain controller apparently the reason.

Just a day after it issued a lengthy explanation of why its cloud multi-factor authentication failed last week, Microsoft has been hit by a similar issue again, with customers complaining that they have been unable to sign in to their Office 365 accounts.

After nearly 18 hours of an outage, Microsoft finally fixed the problem with its Azure cloud service by using an act familiar to Windows users: rebooting.

Microsoft cloud customers using multi-factor authentication have been locked out of their accounts since Monday morning US time, the company's own status pages indicate.

The Netherlands has found Microsoft in violation of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation on many fronts, with a general data protection impact assessment finding that the company collects and stores personal data on a large scale without any public documentation about the same.

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SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers.

Australian cloud software aggregator rhipe has been appointed as the first distributor in Australia of KPMG’s new cloud accounting technology, Wiise.

American software giant Microsoft appears likely to bid for the contract to run the 2021 Australian national census, reliable sources have told iTWire.

Microsoft will drop support for Transport Layer Security versions 1.0 and 1.1 in Office 365 at the end of October, the company has announced, saying the change will provide the best-in-class encryption.

Microsoft is set to provide cloud hosting for the trial of the Federal Government's Govpass ID solution in October, after the Digital Transformation Agency, the government agency that will oversee implementation of the ID solution, announced that it had adopted the company's Azure service as its cloud solution.

Microsoft 365 "brings together a great family of products", according to Microsoft Australia's Microsoft 365 director Evan Williams, and now the company is applying AI to further improve it.

Adobe has announced new integrations between Document Cloud and Microsoft's cloud applications, and added functionality to its Scan mobile app.

SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass claims the adoption of cloud security technologies lags cloud adoption, leaving many Australian and New Zealand organisations at risk of a data breach.

Microsoft staff based overseas will have access to servers in Australia where top-secret government data is stored on the company's Azure cloud service.

Fujitsu has adopted a content collaboration tool from cloud content management vendor Box for its global communication platform aimed at strengthening collaboration between internal teams, customers, and vendor.

Microsoft's certification as a Protected provider of its Azure Cloud and Office 365 services to the Australian Government has literally come under a cloud, with the Australian Signals Directorate issuing a consumer guide containing a number of fiats about the service.

IT services provider Empired has been selected for the early adopter programme for the newly launched Telstra Calling for Office 365 service.

Telstra and Microsoft have jointly launched cloud voice services in Australia with the delivery of Telstra Calling for Office 365.

Microsoft is taking steps to continue forcing users onto Windows 10, with the next version of Office being able to run only on this avatar of its operating system.