Hi Everyone, I read that many people complained about Data Protection Team at Microsoft and I want to add my voice to them, as it is a black hole. Due to a Microsoft bug for password less login, everyone in my organisation is unable to login to their account. I am posting this message with a different microsoft exchange server. The business has been down for four days, I contacted Microsoft at least 10 times. This is what happens every single time, great example of a complete system and technology failure: operator asks for contact details, case number, my address, business name etc. redirect to Data Protection team3. Data Protection team operator talks as if s/he has absolutely no clue what happened in the case despite providing them with case number4. I explain everything that happened from scratch with all the little details again as they ask the stupid questions every time5. They say what your contact details is, engineer will call you6. no one calls and I call back and go through above steps again and again and again, exactly the same every time, and every time no one has a clue of previous information about the caseI asked the operator to connect me to their manager, they refused. I asked them to connect me to engineer and they refused. Yesterday I called and someone said they contacted you! After digging deeper, realised they sent an email to the account that is locked out! Despite having my phone number, despite having my gmail email address and despite knowing how urgent it is, they contacted a locked account after 4 days and expected a response! So the operator for the 10th time took my details and now 16 hrs passed and no one has called. I need Microsoft to understand that my business is fully down due to their fault. I am hiring new employees who are supposed to start this week, I can’t use emails to contact them, I can’t use Slack because it has SSO, I can’t use my project management software because of SSO, and I can’t access my files because of SSO. Updating me about the case is the least they can do, but they prefer to play ignorance. Really frustrating and extremely disappointing of Microsoft. This is a formal complaint as I couldn’t talk to any other human that thinks out of the box and help me talk to someone who has the power to take action. A complete black hole call back procedure.

I woke up this morning and I am having same issue. Entire Business is down because of this. I can see a class action lawsuit on the horizon. HELP

I am having the same issue NOW. I have been down for 6 days - and they are doing NOTHING. It's literally their bug and they do not have any help.

Microsoft 365 Data Protection is useless team, their process is emotionless so they can be easily replaced with gpt 4 to get faster results for Microsoft customers. no need to pay for their service, what's the return of investing in this team, any insights?

Update: the issue was resolved on day 6. Lessons for people with same MFA / authentication problem: I called Microsoft and they logged tickets for 4 days, and no one called back despite this a the most urgent situation (business was shut completely) Every time you call, they create a new ticket to nudge the original person responsible for ticket to call you None of the employees were capable to do anything aside from logging ticket, the only reason my case got resolved in 6 days, is because I insisted to the operator to connect me to his manager. The manager shared screen and logged information properly (after talking to 8 other people at Microsoft) If your problem is with MFA, you probably don't need to talk to Data Protection Team! The manager told me this, and she created a case for me with Azure MFA Team, they called me in 24 hours and were on it until resolved, which took 48 hrs. Lessons for Microsoft When someone's account is locked out, you should not email the person to the same organisational email that is locked! Multiple people were emailing me to the account that I was unable to access and expected a response. But no one called in the first 4 days You must put a mechanism in place for situations where a business is completely shut due to your services. It is costing them every hour. You must call them at least within a window of 4 to 6 hrs to at least update them about what is going on. I received no call for 4 days and had to keep calling back, and every time they created a new ticket! Your operator, ask the exact same questions, despite the client is saying I answered these at least 4 times and without thinking they repeat the same thing again and again and when asked to connect to manager or supervisor, they refuse to do so. So me as the client had no way to talk to someone who thinks outside the box and doesn't just follow the procedure without thinking. I got really lucky that eventually someone did that, and that is how my issue was resolved. After almost 7 days since I logged the ticket, I receive called from Data Protection Team that calling to help with locked out account! This is ridiculous that they picked up such an urgent ticket after such a long wait of days not hours. I received at least 7 calls in one day to answer security questions. These took da full working day and by the end of the day our achievement was we managed to answer 7 security questions. This is extremely inefficient, this should had happened in one phone call that takes 30 minutes, then the case should had been handed to backend dev to make the change which would take him another 30 minutes. Worst case scenario it would be resolved in 4 hrs. But multiple calls, multiple communications, different people and different teams, makes the whole thing chaotic. Anyway, I am grateful that you resolved the issue eventually, otherwise I would potentially file for bankruptcy. But I am very disappointed with how the case was handled. Your products are the best, you are one of the best, it is a shame if you don't resolve this internally.

Update, it is end of day 5 that my business is fully down. I received multiple calls today, to try to login again etc, which obviously hasn’t been possible. They promised to restore my access tomorrow. Every hour that this is delayed is costing me, but sadly Microsoft is really incompetent in handling urgent situations, considering this is bug from Microsoft not my fault!

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Hi Everyone,

I read that many people complained about Data Protection Team at Microsoft and I want to add my voice to them, as it is a black hole.

Due to a Microsoft bug for password less login, everyone in my organisation is unable to login to their account. I am posting this message with a different microsoft exchange server.

The business has been down for four days, I contacted Microsoft at least 10 times. This is what happens every single time, great example of a complete system and technology failure:

operator asks for contact details, case number, my address, business name etc.
redirect to Data Protection team3. Data Protection team operator talks as if s/he has absolutely no clue what happened in the case despite providing them with case number4. I explain everything that happened from scratch with all the little details again as they ask the stupid questions every time5. They say what your contact details is, engineer will call you6. no one calls and I call back and go through above steps again and again and again, exactly the same every time, and every time no one has a clue of previous information about the caseI asked the operator to connect me to their manager, they refused. I asked them to connect me to engineer and they refused.

Yesterday I called and someone said they contacted you! After digging deeper, realised they sent an email to the account that is locked out! Despite having my phone number, despite having my gmail email address and despite knowing how urgent it is, they contacted a locked account after 4 days and expected a response!

So the operator for the 10th time took my details and now 16 hrs passed and no one has called.

I need Microsoft to understand that my business is fully down due to their fault. I am hiring new employees who are supposed to start this week, I can’t use emails to contact them, I can’t use Slack because it has SSO, I can’t use my project management software because of SSO, and I can’t access my files because of SSO.

Updating me about the case is the least they can do, but they prefer to play ignorance.

Really frustrating and extremely disappointing of Microsoft. This is a formal complaint as I couldn’t talk to any other human that thinks out of the box and help me talk to someone who has the power to take action. A complete black hole call back procedure.

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2023-04-12T13:23:20+00:00

I woke up this morning and I am having same issue. Entire Business is down because of this.

I can see a class action lawsuit on the horizon.

HELP
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2023-04-04T19:55:35+00:00

I am having the same issue NOW. I have been down for 6 days - and they are doing NOTHING.

It's literally their bug and they do not have any help.
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2023-03-21T23:41:18+00:00

Microsoft 365 Data Protection is useless team, their process is emotionless so they can be easily replaced with gpt 4 to get faster results for Microsoft customers. no need to pay for their service, what's the return of investing in this team, any insights?
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2023-02-03T16:38:18+00:00
Update: the issue was resolved on day 6.

Lessons for people with same MFA / authentication problem:
1. I called Microsoft and they logged tickets for 4 days, and no one called back despite this a the most urgent situation (business was shut completely)
2. Every time you call, they create a new ticket to nudge the original person responsible for ticket to call you
3. None of the employees were capable to do anything aside from logging ticket, the only reason my case got resolved in 6 days, is because I insisted to the operator to connect me to his manager. The manager shared screen and logged information properly (after talking to 8 other people at Microsoft)
4. If your problem is with MFA, you probably don't need to talk to Data Protection Team! The manager told me this, and she created a case for me with Azure MFA Team, they called me in 24 hours and were on it until resolved, which took 48 hrs.
Lessons for Microsoft
1. When someone's account is locked out, you should not email the person to the same organisational email that is locked! Multiple people were emailing me to the account that I was unable to access and expected a response. But no one called in the first 4 days
2. You must put a mechanism in place for situations where a business is completely shut due to your services. It is costing them every hour. You must call them at least within a window of 4 to 6 hrs to at least update them about what is going on. I received no call for 4 days and had to keep calling back, and every time they created a new ticket!
3. Your operator, ask the exact same questions, despite the client is saying I answered these at least 4 times and without thinking they repeat the same thing again and again and when asked to connect to manager or supervisor, they refuse to do so. So me as the client had no way to talk to someone who thinks outside the box and doesn't just follow the procedure without thinking. I got really lucky that eventually someone did that, and that is how my issue was resolved.
4. After almost 7 days since I logged the ticket, I receive called from Data Protection Team that calling to help with locked out account! This is ridiculous that they picked up such an urgent ticket after such a long wait of days not hours.
5. I received at least 7 calls in one day to answer security questions. These took da full working day and by the end of the day our achievement was we managed to answer 7 security questions. This is extremely inefficient, this should had happened in one phone call that takes 30 minutes, then the case should had been handed to backend dev to make the change which would take him another 30 minutes. Worst case scenario it would be resolved in 4 hrs. But multiple calls, multiple communications, different people and different teams, makes the whole thing chaotic.
Anyway, I am grateful that you resolved the issue eventually, otherwise I would potentially file for bankruptcy. But I am very disappointed with how the case was handled. Your products are the best, you are one of the best, it is a shame if you don't resolve this internally.
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2023-02-01T19:20:08+00:00

Update, it is end of day 5 that my business is fully down. I received multiple calls today, to try to login again etc, which obviously hasn’t been possible. They promised to restore my access tomorrow. Every hour that this is delayed is costing me, but sadly Microsoft is really incompetent in handling urgent situations, considering this is bug from Microsoft not my fault!
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