Thursday has been a tricky work day for a lot of — or perhaps, a fantastic one, relying on how keen you’re to entry work-related packages. Microsoft companies, together with Outlook, Groups and Microsoft 365 are experiencing a big outage that is nonetheless happening as of early night, Pacific time. Microsoft hasn’t introduced an anticipated time when the whole lot shall be again up and operating.
You possibly can observe the official Microsoft 365 Standing account on the social-media platform X, which has been commonly posting updates concerning the outage.
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The primary publish there, from 11:37 a.m. PT, stated that the corporate was “investigating a possible subject impacting a number of Microsoft 365 companies, together with Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview. Additional info could be discovered within the admin middle beneath MO1221364.”
The admin middle is the dashboard for IT admins managing Microsoft 365 companies.
You can too monitor Microsoft’s Service Well being Standing web 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.
