Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for thousands
Users ‘in any region’ could be effected, says the firm in a post on X.
Microsoft's 365 platform, including Outlook and Teams, experienced a prolonged outage on Thursday that lasted over five hours, affecting thousands of users worldwide. The disruption also impacted connectors utilized by AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic. As of 6 p.m. ET, Microsoft stated it was still working to restore service to impacted servers, with limited recovery observed as users gradually regained connectivity.
Reports of Outlook issues peaked at 138,058 around 1 p.m. ET, slightly decreasing to around 34,490 by evening, according to Downdetector. The company initially attributed the problem to servers being unexpectedly unavailable under an elevated load, rather than an increase in traffic. By 5:47 p.m. ET, the number of reports of issues with Microsoft 365 had dropped to nearly 13,000, while there were 763 reports of users facing trouble accessing Teams. The tech giant subsequently mentioned that the restored servers remained stable.
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