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How can I escalate issues in Office 365?
Thanks TonyRedmond. You can @mention me RussellRead if you have any feedback on our Office 365 support experience and I'd be happy to chat.
Mark Weusten - I can take a look at the support ticket to find out what happened. Typically, I wouldn't expect our support teams to close a ticket due to time zone alone, but maybe we'll find that they were unsuccessful in contacting you for some reason. If you can send me the ticket number, I'll take a look to see what happened. I appreciate that this doesn't solve your immediate problem, but if we've got an opportunity to improve, I can get the feedback to the right team.
If you prefer to send your ticket number or continue the conversation privately, you can contact me via e-mail russell.read(@)microsoft.com.
RussellRead - hoping you can help me out. We've had a case open for almost two months now. It's a really important issue where a key member of our team isn't able to view anyone else's calendars to schedule meetings. The ticket number is 12902981. Can you help get this escalated?
- RussellReadApr 17, 2019
Microsoft
Hi ankitmathur,
Thanks for sharing this feedback. Sorry to hear that this ticket has been open for so long. I read through the ticket and I can see that you've been in contact regularly with our support team and that they are actively trying to assist you.
I've asked them to review the current troubleshooting plan to confirm that we're on the right path.
If you need additional assistance to work through any of the troubleshooting steps that have been provided, let the support ambassador know.
-thanks, Russell.
- AriZoNaiCeMay 06, 2019Copper ContributorHey Russell,
I'm having a really tough time with Ticket #:14044081.
We were splitting one tenant into two, and now it seems there's an internal MS DNS entry missing or incorrect. Mail is being delivered to the mailboxes in the old tenant.
Apparently this was "escalated" about a week ago, but we are not "allowed" to communicate with the escalation engineering team. Michael, the support agent working the case, is doing a less than stellar job of communicating with us, and our clients are now without proper mail functionality for over a week.
Can you help?
Thanks!
-- Brian- RussellReadMay 08, 2019
Microsoft
Hi Brian,
Thanks for sharing your experience and sorry that it's taking a while to get this one fixed.
I reviewed your ticket and can confirm that the ticket was escalated.
When we say "escalated", it can mean a few things. Sometimes it means that the person who owns your ticket is out of knowledge or needs help from another subject matter expert within the support org. This will generally be somebody from the same team, but could also be somebody from another team at Microsoft. In either case, the person who owns your ticket will generally continue to own the communication with you.
In your case, the escalation is to our engineering team. These are the folks who write the code and ensure the Office 365 service is running as it should. Whenever things aren't working correctly, if our support teams determine that there are no changes that you, or they, can make that would resolve the issue, they will engage our engineering team to investigate.
On the upside, your ticket is with the right team. The downside is that your issue is unusual and might require further information to be collected to allow the engineering team to continue investigating.
All communications will continue to flow via the support ambassador.
I've sent your feedback over to the team who owns your ticket.
-thanks, Russell.