Expert Discusses Widespread Microsoft Outlook Outage

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Expert discusses widespread Microsoft Outlook outage

The hours-long outage began Thursday morning after thousands of users were unable to access emails and cloud tools. Microsoft said it was caused by an "elevated system load" after a number of servers went offline, overwhelming the remaining network. In a later update, Microsoft reported that some servers had returned to service and initially appeared healthy, but they stopped responding again once they began receiving traffic. Engineers are anal…

Local IT expert weighs in on Microsoft Outlook outage

If you’ve had trouble getting into your email today, you’re not alone.

expert reaction to Microsoft outage

Scientists react to global Microsoft outage. Prof Rabih Bashroush, Professor of Digital Infrastructure, University of East London said: “The disruption that crippled Exchange Online, Outlook, Teams and Microsoft Copilot is the result of an internal operational and cascading infrastructure failure rather than a cyberattack. The incident centres on an overwhelmed process responsible for establishing secure, encrypted connections and handling upstr…