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A Microsoft outage that began on Thursday 12 November disrupted Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services, including Copilot, according to CIR Magazine. Some Teams scheduling features were affected, while core messaging and online meetings remained largely operational.
Why it mattersMicrosoft attributed the disruption to infrastructure problems, including unavailable servers and an overwhelmed process for establishing secure connections. The company said it was restarting systems and monitoring recovery, with service degradation still reported on Friday morning. For users, this is a timely reminder that cloud productivity tools can fail together, even when the symptoms vary by service.
Discuss: Should companies build stronger fallbacks for cloud outages, or is occasional disruption an acceptable price for centralised services?
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