Outlook Still Down for Many as Microsoft Outage Lingers Into Friday
Microsoft said it was working to fix the disruption as more than 22,000 users reported problems with email and other services.
- On Thursday, November 12, Microsoft 365 services including Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Online began a widespread outage affecting 22,000 users that persisted into Friday, November 13.
- Microsoft initially suspected high traffic volumes caused the instability, but investigation revealed backend servers had become unavailable, leaving remaining capacity unable to handle the load.
- Beyond email services, the outage impacted Microsoft Teams, Copilot, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and OneNote, though core messaging functions remained operational for many users.
- Engineers deployed a patch targeting authentication and routing components, showing early signs of recovery by Friday morning while Microsoft extended the email timeout window to 48 hours to prevent message loss.
- Microsoft confirmed there is no indication of malicious activity behind the service failures, though the company has not provided a specific timeline for full restoration as engineers continue bringing servers online.
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Outlook still down for many as Microsoft outage lingers into Friday
Microsoft stated that while it is seeing improvement, its "capacity has not yet fully returned to baseline."
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Several Microsoft services, including Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and Exchange Online, have been experiencing a widespread outage since Thursday. The disruption has now entered its second day, affecting businesses, government agencies, and other organizations across the world. Microsoft has been trying to restore its services for several hours now, but a complete fix is yet to […]
Microsoft is facing difficulties in restoring access to its main software and putting an end to an interruption that has paralysed government offices, traders and companies around the world. Interruptions in Outlook, Teams and the Copilot artificial intelligence tool continued for the second consecutive day on Friday (13), while Microsoft was striving to restore services. Previous interruptions have rarely lasted more than a few hours. We are in…
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Microsoft Outage Enters Second Day: Why Outlook and Teams Are Still Down
Problems with Microsoft's cloud infrastructure disrupted Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services from November 12 A patch has shown early signs of improving server stability, but full restoration remains a work in progress Businesses have turned to alternative communication channels as the outage exposes their dependence on Microsoft's workplace ecosystem The disruption began on Thursday, November 12, initially affecting users trying to access …
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