Microsoft Outlook Down? Email Problems Hit Users Across the World - Here's What We Know
Microsoft said affected customers are seeing intermittent sign-in failures and “too many requests” errors as it investigates the service disruption.
- On Monday April 27, Microsoft Outlook experienced a service disruption causing intermittent sign-in failures and unexpected logouts, with the company's status page flagging the incident as "service degradation."
- Beginning around 5 a.m., outage tracker DownDetector reported a spike in error reports, with Microsoft confirming some Business and Enterprise customers were experiencing service interruption.
- Login failures account for 64 per cent of reported issues, with more than 800 users reporting problems in the UK and more than 400 noting similar issues in the US.
- Affected customers are seeing "too many requests" errors and unexpected signouts, while Microsoft said "our investigation indicates client sign-in scenarios may be contributing to the reported behaviour."
- Recent issues included Exchange Online outages last month affecting mailbox access via Outlook desktop and web; users experiencing persistent "too many tries" errors should wait 30 minutes without login attempts.
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Microsoft's Outlook email service has been down for many users around the world since early Monday morning.
Outlook DOWN: Microsoft confirms investigation into 'unexpected increase' of email login errors
Struggling to access your Outlook inbox today? You're not alone.Hundreds of Microsoft Outlook users have reported problems with the popular email client, as tracked by DownDetector. This independent website monitors the performance of online tools and services by monitoring social media for reports of issues from real users. In the last four hours, Outlook has seen a surge of reports.At its peak, DownDetector was tracking 866 reports from Outloo…
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