Microsoft Confirms Outlook Outage Affecting Users Worldwide
- On Friday, November 13, Microsoft 365 services remained disrupted as recovery efforts failed to deliver expected results, prompting engineers to explore alternative measures.
- The disruption began Thursday, primarily affecting Exchange Online and services reliant on its data, such as Outlook and Teams, due to traffic management imbalances overwhelming servers.
- Downdetector recorded more than 130,000 reports of Outlook problems in the United States at peak disruption. In Australia, users termed it a "Microsoft long weekend."
- Engineers are restarting servers and changing configurations, though machines remain stuck in a bad state, preventing changes from syncing as expected.
- Charles Lamanna, Microsoft executive vice-president for Copilot, stated there is no indication the outage resulted from malicious activity, as the company identifies alternative workstreams to increase capacity.
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Microsoft struggling to restore Outlook and Teams after global outage
Thousands of workers face disruption on Friday as Microsoft struggles to restore its services following a global outage that has knocked out Outlook, Teams and its AI assistant Copilot for more than 14 hours. The technology giant is racing to restore its systems as businesses across Britain and Europe begin the working day, with the [...]
Microsoft acknowledged, on the night of Thursday to Friday 13 November, that the measures taken to repair the outage of Outlook and Microsoft 365 were not working as planned.The problem has been affecting since Thursday 12 November...
Microsoft works to restore services as outages continue worldwide
Microsoft users were still reporting disruption on Friday after outages hit Teams, Outlook, Copilot and some cloud services, while the company said there was no sign of cyber activity.
Microsoft has acknowledged that measures to solve the global drop in Outlook, with problems since this Thursday, are not working "as expected" and that it was looking for alternatives, while users around the world are still without access to its essential services.The interruption, which takes several hours and the US technological giant attributed to a "high charge" on its infrastructure, has affected its email service, as well as products such…
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