Microsoft fixes Entra ID authentication issue caused by DNS change

"Between 17:18 UTC and 18:35 UTC on 25 February 2025, customers attempting to authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID using the Seamless SSO and Microsoft Entra Connect Sync features may have experienced DNS resolution failures when trying to access Azure services," the company explained. Last month, Microsoft also reverted a networking configuration change that caused connectivity issues, prolonged timeouts, connection drops, and resource allocation failures across multiple Azure services for East US 2 customers between January 8 and January 10. In an update to its Azure status page, Microsoft says these problems were caused by a recent DNS change that triggered DNS resolution failures when customers tried to access Azure services. While Microsoft has yet to share more information on what regions and Aure services were affected by these authentication failures, Redmond says the Azure status page is only used to track "widespread incidents." The company also promised to share more details over the next 60 minutes. Two years earlier, in April 2021, a code defect triggered a global outage that impacted many Microsoft services because of overloaded Azure DNS servers. Microsoft has fixed an issue that caused Entra ID DNS authentication failures when using the company's Seamless SSO and Microsoft Entra Connect Sync. A Microsoft 365 outage in late January also prevented admins from accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center, while a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) outage two weeks earlier blocked customers from accessing Microsoft 365 Office apps. Azure services that were impacted included Azure Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, Azure SQL Database, Azure DevOps, Azure NetApp Files, Azure Stream Analytics, and more.

This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:20:19 +0000


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