Microsoft outage

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Microsoft investigates outage affecting Teams and Outlook users ... (The Guardian)

Service status monitoring website Downdetector records thousands of people reporting problems.

Its US tech peers have also announced job cuts, including Facebook’s parent Meta, and the Google owner Alphabet, with admissions that they had over-expanded during the coronavirus pandemic, a [common theme](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/06/amazon-apple-tesla-elon-musk-job-cuts-tech-sector). The reported outage came hours after Microsoft flagged softening demand for its cloud computing services in its latest quarterly results. It added at 9.26am GMT: “We’ve rolled back a network change that we believe is causing impact.”

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Microsoft 365 outage affecting Teams, Outlook and Azure users ... (ComputerWeekly.com)

Microsoft 365 is in the midst of an outage that has left users across the UK and beyond unable to access Teams, Outlook and Exchange Online.

[Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252497921/Microsoft-cloud-users-hit-by-global-outage-linked-to-Azure-Active-Directory-issue)services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight. This means users are likely falling back on to centralised vendor-owned, consumer-grade comms apps like WhatsApp where sensitive discussions will be on Facebook-owned servers, leaving businesses with no control over how their data is stored, managed or accessed,” said Hodgson. If we deliver on this, we will emerge stronger and thrive long into the future; it’s as simple as that.” “We’re living through times of significant change. “#MicrosoftTeams Thank you for the outage. [identified a networking fault that has resulted in users being unable to access multiple services](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252497921/Microsoft-cloud-users-hit-by-global-outage-linked-to-Azure-Active-Directory-issue) within its cloud-based portfolio of business productivity tools, including Teams and Outlook.

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Microsoft probes Teams, Outlook outage as thousands of users ... (The Business Times)

MICROSOFT Corp said on Wednesday (Jan 25) it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams and Outlook, with outage ...

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Microsoft Outlook and Teams Outage Reported Due To 'Networking ... (The New York Times)

Microsoft said it was investigating an issue that caused its email and video conferencing tools to go down for thousands of users early Wednesday.

Eastern time, it said it had “isolated the problem to a networking configuration issue,” and that it was working on a solution. [reported](https://status.office365.com/) “issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services,” including its Outlook and Microsoft Teams services, that serve many businesses. The widely used Microsoft Teams and Outlook email services were among the services affected.

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Microsoft probes Teams, Outlook outage as thousands of users ... (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams and Outlook, with outage reports ...

Azure, the second largest cloud services provider after Amazon [(AMZN.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/AMZN.O), faced outages last year. During the outage, users faced problems in exchanging messages, join calls or use any features of Teams application. This impacts connectivity between clients on the internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in datacenters, it said. Microsoft added in a tweet it had rolled back a network change that it believed was causing the issue. Only services in China and its platform for governments were not hit. [(GOOGL.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O) to [Meta](/technology/whatsapp-outages-reported-across-india-2022-10-25/) [(META.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/META.O) have seen service disruptions.

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Microsoft investigating Teams and Outlook outages as thousands of ... (CNBC)

Microsoft is investigating issues with several of its products including Teams and Outlook, the company said Tuesday.

But the company saw a slowdown in revenue from cloud computing products, including Azure, and gave [gloomy guidance](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-forecast-suggests-gloomy-tech-environment-will-continue.html) for the current quarter. We're monitoring the service as the rollback takes effect." - "We've identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps," the company said.

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Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage (The Business Times)

MICROSOFT Corp said on Wednesday (Jan 25) it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams and Outlook, with outage ...

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Microsoft is investigating a massive global outage affecting Teams ... (BetaNews)

Multiple Microsoft 365 services have been hit by an outage that is affecting users around the world. The problems have disrupted access to a large number of ...

We are actively investigating and will share updates as soon as more is known. We'll provide more information once we have additional information. Scope of impact: Any user serviced by the affected infrastructure may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services. The company is also looking into Azure connectivity problems. User impact: Users are unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services. Title: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services

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Microsoft working on full recovery for outage affecting Outlook ... (TODAY)

SINGAPORE — Microsoft is in the process of speeding up recovery for several of its services, after it identified a potential networking problem that has led ...

On its Microsoft 365 Status page with Twitter, the software giant said at around 7pm Singapore time: “We're continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation. Advertisement SINGAPORE — Microsoft is in the process of speeding up recovery for several of its services, after it identified a potential networking problem that has led to users being unable to access Outlook, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online, for instance.

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Microsoft reports outage for Teams, Outlook, other services (CBS News)

Thousands of users reported problems on Wednesday with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox Live platform.

Many users took to social media to complain that the services were down, noting that the problems were affectring their work. Thousands of users reported problems with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox Live online gaming service early Wednesday on the Downdetector website, which tracks outage reports. ET, it appeared that service had been restored, however.

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Microsoft cloud outage hits users around the world (CNN)

Microsoft on Wednesday said it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such ...

Earlier, Microsoft said it had determined a network connectivity issue was occurring with devices across the Microsoft WAN. During the outage, users faced problems in exchanging messages, joining calls or using any features of Teams application. Microsoft’s cloud business had helped shore up its fiscal second-quarter earnings on Tuesday. [(CRZBF)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=CRZBF&source=story_quote_link) (CBKG) said in a statement that Microsoft was investigating several issues impacting the bank. This impacts connectivity between clients on the internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in data centres, it said. [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) on Wednesday said it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions around the globe.

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Breaking News: Microsoft Azure Outage Wipes Out Teams, 365, and ... (Data Center Knowledge)

Microsoft experienced a three-hour outage to its core M365 offerings due to Azure network issues.

While the two outages vary in source, the widespread impact is a common feature of these and all outages from major organizations. And more firms are paying upward of $1 million to survive the aftereffects of an outage, with the number of firms paying out seven figures rising to 15%, up from 11% in previous years. This can dramatically reduce the time it takes to get back in business following a disaster to help you meet your specified recovery time objective (RTO). A change the firm made to its WAN severed connectivity between the internet and Microsoft’s core suite of services. When a contractor deleted said files, the system slowed and NOTAM alerts were unavailable to pilots, grounding domestic flights across the U.S. The outage in multiple regions lasted for three hours and affected Azure resources in Public Azure regions.

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Microsoft 365 outage takes down Teams, Exchange Online, Outlook (BleepingComputer)

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services after customers have reported experiencing connection issues.

"We're investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services. "We've determined the network connectivity issue is occurring with devices across the Microsoft Wide Area Network (WAN). "The issue is causing impact in waves, peaking approximately every 30 minutes.

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Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS? (DevOps.com)

All of Microsoft's cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond's IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running ...

Azure … GCP had a similar thing once, where a BGP update knocked out their Asian regions. This is just the nudge I needed: … Because I couldn’t auth with Microsoft MFA, my VPN would connect but refuse to auth further. I’ll be moving the whole thing to Linode later this afternoon. Just a week earlier, the company slashed 10,000 jobs. A wide scale Microsoft outage had many users unable to access Outlook, Teams, Azure, and more. Azure said most customers should have seen services resume after a full recovery of the Microsoft Wide Area Network. This has all the hallmarks of a dodgy DNS config or a broken BGP update. … It’s clear that some hapless Microserf b0rked the internal network with a configuration change. Analysis: It’s DNS.

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Microsoft reports outage for Teams, Outlook, other services (Terrace Standard)

Microsoft said it's seeing some improvement to problems with its online services including the Teams messaging platform and Outlook email system after users ...

“We’re continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation,” the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account said. “We’re also connecting the service to additional infrastructure to expedite the recovery process.” Thousands of users reported problems with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox Live online gaming service early Wednesday on the Downdetector website, which tracks outage reports.

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Multiple Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Xbox Live ... (TechCrunch)

Scores of Microsoft services including Teams, Xbox Live, Outlook and Microsoft 365 suite are inaccessible to thousands of users.

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Microsoft reports outage for Teams, Outlook, other services (Saanich News)

Microsoft said it's seeing some improvement to problems with its online services including the Teams messaging platform and Outlook email system after users ...

“We’re continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation,” the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account said. “We’re also connecting the service to additional infrastructure to expedite the recovery process.” Thousands of users reported problems with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox Live online gaming service early Wednesday on the Downdetector website, which tracks outage reports.

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Microsoft's services resume after cloud outage hits users around the ... (The Straits Times)

Azure says most customers should have seen services resume after a full recovery of the Microsoft Wide Area Network. Read more at straitstimes.com.

During the outage, users faced problems in exchanging messages, joining calls or using any features of Teams application. Earlier, Microsoft said it had determined a network connectivity issue was occurring with devices across the Microsoft WAN. Microsoft’s cloud business had helped shore up its fiscal second-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Microsoft later tweeted that it had rolled back a network change that it believed was causing the issue and was using “additional infrastructure to expedite the recovery process”. This impacts connectivity between clients on the internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in data centres, it said. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said on Wednesday it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions around the globe.

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Daily Crunch: 'Network issue' causes cloud outage that takes down ... (TechCrunch)

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Teams, Outlook Have 'Recovered' From Microsoft 365 Outage | CRN (CRN)

Here's a look at the impact of the Microsoft 365 outage that left thousands of users in North America without access to Teams and Outlook.

Stinner credited Microsoft with having the best online telemetry and cybersecurity of any of the hyperscaler providers. “Microsoft is on top of the world with the best cybersecurity and telemetry and online experience than any other company out there,” he said. “Their ability to bring these Microsoft 365 services back online quickly is a testament to the fact that they are the best in the business at keeping cloud services up and running and safe. US itek and none of our customers were impacted.” Further, updates on the Exchange investigation will be available in your admin center under the SI# EX502694.— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) I’m all in with Microsoft Azure and its complete cybersecurity stack. “No one likes to hear about outages, but I give Microsoft kudos because when these things happen they seem to be one of the fastest companies to recover and get back online,” he said. “For some SaaS providers, outages can last many hours and even as long as a day. At about 4:44 a.m. At about 3:44 a.m. 17](https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1615352539871907843), Microsoft was forced to analyze “network trace logs” to isolate the source of the issue, which left some users in North America “unable to access Microsoft 365 services.” We've confirmed that the impacted services have recovered and remain stable.

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Microsoft to reveal reasons for mega outage in detail this week (Economic Times)

Microsoft said it will follow up in three days with a preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR), which will cover the initial root cause and repair items.

"We've received reports that the following services are impacted: "We determined that a change made to the The company confirmed that it rolled back a network change that "it believes was causing the impact".

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Microsoft says services have recovered after widespread outage (BBC News)

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed dwindling numbers of users reporting problems. Microsoft blamed the outage on a change it made to its "Wide ...

But for the thousands who lost access to services, it's been a significant inconvenience. But the impact seems to have been uneven, and relatively modest given the number of users of some of the affected systems. Eurostar, for example, tweeted that it was having problems with its services as a result of the outage affecting Azure - a popular rival to Amazon Web Services, and used by many big businesses for both storage and extra processing power. In a statement to the BBC, Microsoft explicitly ruled out a cyber-attack as a potential cause of the issue. Microsoft blamed the outage on a change it made to its "Wide Area Network", which had now been "resolved" Microsoft services have recovered after tens of thousands of users reported its products, including Outlook and Teams, had stopped working.

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