{"id":4329,"date":"2026-11-13T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:03:44","slug":"microsoft-outage-disrupts-outlook-and-teams-for-10-hours-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4329","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook and Teams for 10 hours worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft \u200bservices such as Outlook and Teams were disrupted for about 10 hours on Thursday as the tech giant struggled \u200cto fix issues with some servers, hitting businesses and government agencies globally that use the popular platforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In its latest update, Microsoft said efforts to improve serviceability were not progressing as expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Downdetector, which tracks outages \u200bby collating status reports from several sources, showed more than 25,000 reports of Outlook problems in the US \u200bat 9:30pm.<\/p>\n

It also showed outages for several Microsoft services in the Asia-Pacific region, including \u2060India, Australia and Japan, early Friday local time.<\/p>\n

At its peak, Downdetector showed more than 130,000 reports of Outlook problems in the US around \u200b1pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In a service health notice, Microsoft said features of Microsoft 365 services that depended on Exchange Online and email were affected, \u200bwhile elements that did not rely on Exchange Online remained functional.<\/p>\n

Exchange Online is the company\u2019s cloud-based messaging platform that delivers email, calendar, contacts, and tasks.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Impact on email systems<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Australian Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Tony Burke said that Microsoft believed it was not dealing with a cyberattack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey believe they are dealing in some \u200bways similar to what we saw with respect to CrowdStrike where there is an update that has gone awry,\u201d Burke said at a press \u200bconference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact that they are dealing with \u2026 is very much on email systems,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s spy agency and federal police were among organisations<\/a> caught up in the outage on \u200cFriday.<\/p>\n

The CrowdStrike \u2060malfunction of 2024 was one of the largest internet disruptions, hobbling technology systems in hospitals, banks, and airports, highlighting the vulnerability of the world\u2019s interconnected technologies.<\/p>\n

The US House of Representatives said the outage impacted its users, and its engineers were working with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The company had earlier in the day pointed to several servers being unexpectedly unavailable and said it was not driven by an increase in traffic.<\/p>\n

Microsoft had then said the restored servers remained stable \u200bso far and that it was \u200bshifting traffic to alternate routes \u2060wherever possible while streamlining the process to bring the remaining impacted servers back online.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect,\u201d Microsoft said in a previous statement.<\/p>\n

At 6pm, Microsoft had said it observed limited recovery as users gradually reconnected.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Businesses feel the impact<\/strong><\/h3>\n

OpenAI \u200bsaid it was investigating \u2060an issue with Microsoft connectors in which new connections may be broken and tools are not working as expected.<\/p>\n

Anthropic said it had identified an issue with an upstream provider affecting its Microsoft 365 connector.<\/p>\n

Microsoft last month<\/a> reported an outage of its Azure cloud platform that impacted the tech giant\u2019s suite \u2060of productivity \u200bsoftware and a range of industries worldwide.<\/p>\n

Electric truck maker Workhorse Group, which was expected \u200bto report third-quarter results on November 12, rescheduled it to November 16, citing business disruptions caused by the global Microsoft outage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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