‘Is Microsoft Down?’ Outlook and Teams Go Dark in Widespread Outage
Thursday was a tough work day for many – or maybe a great day, depending on your desire to access work-related programs. Microsoft services, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365, experienced a significant outage.
“We are working to resolve a functionality issue with the service,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CNET in an evening email. “A subset of customers may be affected intermittently. For more information, please check updates via Microsoft 365 Status on X.”
The company’s latest X post offered some hope.
“We are seeing continued improvements in service availability and functionality through our load balancing efforts,” reads a message posted at 6:46 p.m. PT. “We are actively monitoring performance and making targeted adjustments to further improve stability and availability, while continuing recovery actions to ensure a reliable service experience. »
Microsoft hasn’t announced a timeline for when everything will be back up and running.
In addition to following the official Microsoft 365 Status account on the X social media platform, you can also monitor Microsoft’s Service Health page. This page states that “Users may experience degraded service functionality or be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.”
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The first post on Further information can be found in the admin center under MO1221364. »
The Admin Center is the dashboard for IT administrators managing Microsoft 365 services.
