MS Azure on the fritz, takes down Office365 admin services

courcoul writes: Apparently since ~8:15 EDT, managing your Office365 domain has become a compllicated pursuit. Extremely difficult to log in, if at all. The rest of the services appear to run ok, when logging into https://portal.office.com/ but if you should try and go into the Admin service, an "Our services aren't available right now" banner is all you get. It appears the underlying issue is the Azure backend, as mapped out in http://downdetector.com/status... where the extent of the widespread failure is apparent. I guess we'll need lots of patience.