Although we have not seen any official comments from Microsoft Azure, we believe the issue affecting our websites has been resolved. If you continue to experience any intermittent issues, please email us at vcgsupport@vcgcorporate.com or call (800) 558-3054.
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We are aware of an issue that is possibly causing intermittent accessibility issues for VCG websites (vcgcorporate.com, myvcg.com, signsearch.com, workmyjobs.com). We are looking into the issue and hope to have a resolution shortly.
We appreciate your patience as we investigate this.
If you have any questions relating to this notice or to any of your VCG services, please email us at vcgsupport@vcgcorporate.com or call (800) 558-3054.
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UPDATE [11:39am CST] - This issue is related to a global Azure Front Door outage impacting the service we use to host our applications. According to Azure support:
"We’re investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services. Customers may experience intermittent request failures or latency. Updates will be provided shortly."
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UPDATE [12:35am CST] - https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state.
We have failed the portal away from AFD to mitigate the portal access issues. Customers should be able to access the Azure management portal directly.
We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update.
This message was last updated at 17:18 UTC on 29 October 2025
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UPDATE [2:22pm CST] - https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
Current status:
We initiated the deployment of our ‘last known good’ configuration, which has now successfully been completed. Customers may have begun to see initial signs of recovery. We are currently recovering nodes and routing traffic through healthy nodes, and as we make progress in this workstream, customers will continue to see improvement.
Customer configuration changes will remain temporarily blocked while we continue mitigation efforts. We will notify customers once this block has been lifted.
Some customers may also have experienced issues accessing the Azure management portal. We have failed the portal away from AFD to mitigate these access issues. Customers should now be able to access the Azure portal directly, and while most portal extensions are functioning as expected, a small number of endpoints (e.g., Marketplace) may still experience intermittent loading problems.
At this stage, we anticipate full mitigation within the next four hours as we continue to recover nodes. This means we expect recovery to happen by 23:20 UTC on 29 October 2025. We will provide another update on our progress within two hours, or sooner if warranted.
Although we are seeing signs of recovery and have an estimated timeline, customers may also consider implementing failover strategies using Azure Traffic Manager to redirect traffic from Azure Front Door to their origin servers as an interim measure.
Learn more about Azure Front Door failover strategies for AFD: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/networking/global-web-applications/overview
This message was last updated at 19:22 UTC on 29 October 2025