Thursday has been a troublesome work day for a lot of — or possibly, an important one, relying on how keen you’re to entry work-related applications. Microsoft companies, together with Outlook, Groups and Microsoft 365 are experiencing a big outage that is nonetheless occurring as of early night, Pacific time. Microsoft hasn’t introduced an anticipated time when every thing might be again up and working.
You possibly can comply with the official Microsoft 365 Status account on the social-media platform X, which has been recurrently posting updates in regards to the outage.
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The primary submit there, from 11:37 a.m. PT, mentioned that the corporate was “investigating a possible difficulty impacting a number of Microsoft 365 companies, together with Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview. Additional data may be discovered within the admin middle underneath MO1221364.”
You may also monitor Microsoft’s Service Health Status page. That web page is noting that “customers could also be seeing degraded service performance or be unable to entry a number of Microsoft 365 companies.”
A consultant for Microsoft did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
