Microsoft Nightmare - Data Protection team

Anonymous
2023-01-31T07:25:32+00:00

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:

  1. operator asks for contact details, case number, my address, business name etc. 
  2. 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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-08T02:45:42+00:00

    I am having the EXACT same frustrating issue!! I have never been so frustrated and disappointed with customer service in my life! I'm not sure how many more times I can start from scratch and explain the exact same issue to yet another "advisor" or "tech". This is absolutely ridiculous. I think I'm ready to switch to Google.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-09T00:19:39+00:00

    I have the exact same issue i.e. loss of access to a tenant due to some issue with the authenticator.
    Request ID 2312220030000506

    Lodged a request Dec last year, was told Data Protection would get back within 2 business days.

    Have received no response as yet even though my org pays for premium support!

    Looks like Microsoft treats small business and other business with the exact same indifference!

    Reading this thread leads me to believe I need to escalate this with our account team
    I even tried emailing the Manager of the Engineer who contacted me initially, the mail actually bounces!!
    These guys just don't care

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-09T00:58:36+00:00

    Interesting nugget on this, was told by the support line

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/global-customer-service-phone-numbers-c0389ade-5640-e588-8b0e-28de8afeb3f2

    that the Data Protection team has a huge backlog of cases..obviously Microsoft cannot be bothered resourcing this properly - where do those multi-billion profits go? https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/gross-profit

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  4. Vincent Choy 11,260 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-01-09T01:38:01+00:00

    This is a situation where having premium support will make a difference.

    If you have premium support, raise a Severity 1 ticket and let your premium support rep do all the liaising.

    From what I am told, it does get things done a lot faster. Good luck

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-11T17:07:39+00:00

    Does creating a Severity 1 ticket require you to login? Because that's the entire problem, no one can login.

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