Microsoft outage continues as planned fixes are not working as expected, company says
Microsoft said more than 430 million people use its 365 apps as engineers worked to restore services after reports from 74 countries.
- On Friday, Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot suffered widespread failures across Australia after a core process became overwhelmed.
- Microsoft Corp. determined that the elevated load stemmed from a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, straining the remaining infrastructure rather than from increased traffic.
- Queensland Health Services, supporting a 130,000 strong workforce, faced significant disruption, while Downdetector Australia recorded more than 4,400 reports of Outlook problems by 8:20am Friday.
- ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess noted similarities to the 2024 CrowdStrike incident that crashed nearly 8.5 million computers, stating systems were affected "but not completely."
- University of Melbourne Associate Professor Adel Toosi warned that reliance on major cloud providers creates systemic vulnerability, cautioning, "If all of them are failing, nothing can be done.
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Microsoft users experienced a large-scale failure on the evening of November 12th. The cloud-based e-mail service, Excel Online, and its dependent services, was discontinued. The users, among other things, did not have the Outlock e-mail, the Teams corporate platform, and the II-Assistant Copilot. The malfunction, according to the corporation itself, affected more than 70 countries in the world. Twelve hours after the first Microsoft messages, t…
This global incidence, which started on Thursday due to a "high charge" on your infrastructure, especially affects your Outlook mail service
Microsoft is experiencing a global outage! Outlook is inaccessible in 74 countries, and Teams and Copilot are also experiencing disruption. So what's causing the tech giant's disruption?
Le Journal de Montreal
Microsoft said Thursday that the measures taken to repair a global Outlook messaging breakdown were not working as planned.
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