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blogs.office.com disappeared
Hello, can anyone tell me what happened to blogs.office.com? The URL now redirects to the Microsoft home page and none of my saved links to blog posts work anymore. The RSS feed last updated on Friday 29-Sep, but none of the links in the RSS messages work.
What's happening?
Hi All - the blog site is down right now, not planned, and we are working on it as we speak.
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- I'm still having a problem with the RSS feed. It's updating the xml, but Innoreader hasn't been able to read it in weeks. There's a lot of errors on feed validator too. I'm subscribing to https://blogs.office.com/en-us/feed/.
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.office.com%2Fen-us%2Ffeed%2FSame here: problems with the RSS feed.
- We're looking into it - will get back to you.
- Working now, thanks for resolving this.
- jeffmedford
Microsoft
Should be back online now, sorry for the trouble!
Still unavailable for me in Canada...
- Thanks all - please let us know if you are still experiencing issues.
It's online now at Europe, many thanks !
- Still not working here in Austria (EUROPE) - being again redirected to microsoft.com
- jeffmedford
Hi All - the blog site is down right now, not planned, and we are working on it as we speak.
Thanks for the update Jeff, it's appreciated.
Update - Same as John Wynne still not working here, site redirected.
Update 2 - Unlike NunoAriasSilva, still not working in the UK.
Hi Cian,
In Portugal is working, maybe some replication still ongoing.
That's strange being unannounced and all. Hopefully, someone will let us all know what's going on soon, maybe it's just a technical issue rather than anything bigger. Incidentally, it wasn't so long ago, that the Office Blogs had a new design and everything.
- https://blogs.office.com is working for me. Let me know if you are still seeing it down.
- Still down for me today.
- An official update would be good. I always treated Office Blogs as ‘anchor’ announcements with the blogs here as ‘technical’ ones. A farewell blog would have been good with a placeholder at the original site. Microsoft did massively great work here over Ignite. I’m hoping this is a glitch or a misstep.
- Good to see it back!
- John you are spot on. Office Blogs = Tier 1 announcements for all audiences. Tech Community Blogs = more technical content and guidance, not as polished but provides all the detail you need tailored to technical audiences.
It might happen they are having problems with the platform where Blogs.com is hosted...I don't think Microsoft is going to shut them down....adding here AnnaChu Brian Levenson MichaelHolste
- Agreed,but there are lots of channels to let us know: here, Twitter etc.
- They (Microsoft) could at least have warned us about this. "This" as in the TechCommunity will take over the blogs, probably.
I have a few internal posts that linked directly there :( there is a cached version on google, but all links have been redirected:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o5v4QKhGBgkJ:https://blogs.office.com/en-us/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
