Microsoft outage continues as planned fixes are not working as expected, company says
Microsoft said early signs of stabilisation were emerging as engineers restored traffic and added capacity, but some users still faced intermittent email and Teams issues.
- A major Microsoft 365 outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, and Copilot starting Thursday, November 12, persisting into Friday and affecting tens of thousands of users across more than 70 countries, impacting businesses, government agencies, and emergency services worldwide.
- Microsoft executive vice-president Charles Lamanna ruled out cyberattacks, attributing the outage to 'elevated load' after numerous servers became 'unexpectedly unavailable,' straining remaining infrastructure and forcing the company to reroute traffic and restart affected systems.
- Outage tracker Downdetector recorded more than 130,000 reports of Outlook difficulties at peak, while police forces, GP surgeries, and airlines including IndiGo and Air India reported disruptions to email services and activated alternative communication channels.
- Early Friday, Microsoft reported 'marginal success' in recovery efforts after working 'aggressively' to address service degradation; the company continues implementing traffic optimization measures but has not provided a definitive timeline for full service restoration.
- The incident exposes vulnerabilities in centralized digital infrastructure, with experts noting 'knock-on effects' when major providers fail; governments have activated contingency plans while Microsoft continues monitoring progress to restore affected regions to full capacity.
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Microsoft reported on Friday on "continuous progress" in restoring its services affected since the previous day by a global breakdown, with "improvements" in North America and "in much of Europe", as well as "encouraging" signs of recovery in Asia-Pacific. ...
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Microsoft said Friday that the outage was affecting a wide range of Microsoft 365 offerings that interact with its Exchange Online and email services. Services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were reported by users to be down. The…
A general drop in Microsoft 365 service (which includes Outlook email, OneDrive online storage and office package) was extended from Thursday to Friday as the company did not finish right with a solution for the technical flaws experienced by the service worldwide
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mannheim24.deThe failure of Microsoft services has greatly disrupted everyday office life on Friday. A lawyer explains what duties employees still have and what applies in the home office.
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