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Global Microsoft outage affecting Outlook and Teams users, with company ‘restarting’ servers

Global Microsoft outage affecting Outlook and Teams users, with company ‘restarting’ servers

Also reported by Al Jazeera, Newsweek, ABC News

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Summary

A global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted access to Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot. Microsoft said it was restarting affected servers and applying a validated fix, while investigating configuration updates as a possible cause.

Key Facts

  • Down Detector recorded nearly 130,000 reports of problems accessing Microsoft 365 services.
  • Users reported trouble loading inboxes and sending or receiving email.
  • Microsoft said part of its infrastructure was experiencing elevated load because many servers were unexpectedly unavailable.
  • The company said a problem caused some servers to fail automated checks.
  • Microsoft validated an alternative health-check method on some affected servers and began applying it more broadly.
  • Microsoft was preparing an automated process to detect and restart unresponsive servers.
  • Microsoft paused deployments and configuration changes while reviewing recent updates for a possible link to the outage.
  • Microsoft said it had restored Teams problems in North America, though some users continued to report connectivity issues.
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