Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and other services
A Microsoft 365 outage on Thursday left users across the United States and in other countries unable to reach Outlook email, Teams, Copilot and other services. Microsoft said tens of thousands of Outlook users could not connect to their mailboxes. The company said servers had unexpectedly gone offline and that it was investigating the cause.
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Microsoft said failed server health checks disrupted Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services, and it disclosed no evidence of a cyberattack.4
The outage tracker Downdetector recorded nearly 130,000 reports of Outlook problems on Thursday afternoon, with thousands more involving Teams, Copilot and other services, according to the Associated Press.7
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