Microsoft services including Outlook and Microsoft 365 suffered a widespread outage on Thursday, with more than 100,000 users reporting problems on Downdetector, according to Mashable. Its explainer identifies Microsoft Exchange as the clou
An ongoing Microsoft 365 outage left people struggling to access work inboxes on Thursday, Mashable reports. Microsoft said Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot could also be affected, alongside other services. Why it matters Exchange Online, wh
Microsoft says it has restarted all servers affected by Thursday’s outage, which disrupted Teams, Outlook and Copilot. The company is testing a configuration to address the problem. Why it matters The BBC reports that the configuration issu
Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot were hit by an outage on 12 November, with users reporting problems accessing essential work tools. Why it matters ZDNET says outage reports peaked at nearly 83,000 for Outlook before
Microsoft 365 services suffered a major outage on Thursday, disrupting access to Outlook and other services. WIRED reports that Microsoft identified unexpectedly unavailable servers as the source of elevated load, rather than a surge in tra
Users are reporting access problems across Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services. Microsoft says many of its servers became unexpectedly unavailable, with elevated load affecting some platforms, according to Engadget. Why it matte
A widespread Microsoft services outage is also disrupting OpenAI’s Microsoft connectors, The Independent reports. OpenAI says it is investigating an issue that may break new connections and stop tools from working as expected. Why it matter
A Microsoft services outage is affecting connectors used by both OpenAI and Anthropic, The Independent reports. Microsoft says it is routing traffic away from affected infrastructure and restarting servers as it works to restore service. Wh
A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot on Thursday, with more than 120,000 people reporting Outlook problems on Downdetector at about 1.30pm ET, The Globe and Mail reports. Why it matters Microsoft said users in the America
Users are reporting problems with Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft services. Microsoft says the issue may affect Microsoft 365 connectivity in any region and that it is redistributing connection traffic to balance the load. Why it matters
Microsoft says it has redistributed connection traffic across its worldwide infrastructure and is moving more traffic away from affected systems. It is also restarting servers as it works to restore Outlook access, The Verge reports. Why it
Microsoft is investigating problems accessing Exchange Online mailboxes across the Americas, with Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services affected, according to Variety and WKYT. The reports say the disruption also affected scheduling and
Microsoft is investigating problems accessing Outlook email across the Americas, with scheduling and messaging in Teams also affected, WKYT reports. By 1.30pm EST, Downdetector had logged nearly 12,000 reports. Why it matters Microsoft said
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