Microsoft cloud outage spreads from Outlook and Teams worldwide
Original title: Microsoft’s latest email outage turned into a full blown global cloud crisis
Outlook began recovering Friday after about 18 hours; Microsoft says it found no evidence of malicious activity.
Microsoft is recovering from a day-long outage that began Thursday as Outlook and Teams trouble in the Americas and then spread globally. Consumer and business email, files, Copilot, Defender, and Intune were affected, and some users could not reach cloud-based Windows PCs. Microsoft said many servers were unexpectedly unavailable and that it is still investigating the cause. It reported no evidence of malicious activity.
Unconfirmed: Microsoft has not identified the cause and did not answer whether it retained logs to check for malicious activity.
- Problems started Thursday and were first flagged in the U.S. and the Americas.
- As of Friday morning on the U.S. East Coast, some Outlook mail had begun arriving.
- Kentik’s Doug Madory said traffic returned after about 18 hours of downtime.
- A September cloud outage was blamed on a core authentication configuration issue.
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Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
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