'Our break-glass admin password is in a OneNote on the affected tenant' — outage satire goes viral
IgorCarron · x · 2026-11-14
A satirical post-by-a-fake-former-Microsoft-365-SRE is making the rounds: a routine Azure Front Door config change allegedly redirected authentication traffic to a SharePoint site last updated in 2017, the rollback pipeline needed MFA approval from the very infrastructure being restored, and the break-glass admin password turned out to be stored in a OneNote notebook on the affected tenant. Igor Carron shared it with "J'ai ri" — peak ops irony.
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