blogs.office.com disappeared

[Ingeborg Hawighorst]

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?

[#2]

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/+&...

[#3]

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 :(

[#4]

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.

[#5]

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 @Anna Chu @Brian Levenson @Michael Holste

[#6]

Agreed,but there are lots of channels to let us know: here, Twitter etc.

[#7]

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.

[#8]

https://blogs.office.com is working for me. Let me know if you are still seeing it down.

[#9]

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.

[#10]

Not working here still.  I have tried different browsers and networks, it still redirects to the Microsoft homepage.  

I have tried a number of URL redirection tools like this one and they say there is a redirection on the site.  Maybe there is more to it, like a regional factor, which would explain why the site is loading fine for you.  I'm just guessing really!

[#11]

same as Cian here. Redirects to https://www.microsoft.com/de-at/?wa=wsignin1.0 for me (EUROPE Region here)

[#12 · Accepted solution]

Hi All - the blog site is down right now, not planned, and we are working on it as we speak.

[#13]

Should be back online now, sorry for the trouble!

[#14]

Thanks for the update Jeff, it's appreciated.

Update - Same as @John Wynne still not working here, site redirected.

Update 2 - Unlike @Nuno Silva, still not working in the UK. 

[#15]

Still down for me today.

[#16]

It's online now at Europe, many thanks !

[#17]

Hi Cian,

In Portugal is working, maybe some replication still ongoing.

[#18]

Still not working for me in New Zealand.

[#19]

And me also ... I'm in New Zealand as well.

Note: Also www.microsoft.com is also not working.

[#20]

From the blogs menu item above and then click Office blog on the right it goes to here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/bg-p/Office365Blog

Which works, but the shortcut blogs.office.com gives an access denied and reroutes to www.microsoft.com.