UPDATE with latest: Microsoft‘s latest says its “targeted restarts are progressing slower than anticipated for the majority of affected users” after an outage due to an unspecified “recent change” crippled Microsoft 360, Outlook, Exchange and more.
An ETA for resolution will be provided by Microsoft as soon as available, the tech giant said.
PREVIOUSLY: A massive outage at Microsoft on Monday has crippled Microsoft 365 and is impacting global users of Teams, Outlook and Exchange emails, calendars and more.
The Downdector website showed reports of outages starting to bubble overnight into a giant spike starting at about 8 a.m.
Microsoft hasn’t said what the “change” was that it identified today that created the issues.
UPDATE: According to Microsoft’s most recent report, its “targeted restarts are progressing slower than anticipated for the majority of affected users” following an outage caused by an unidentified “recent change” that rendered Microsoft 360, Outlook, Exchange, and other programs dysfunctional.
As soon as a resolution is available, Microsoft will provide an estimated time of arrival, the tech giant stated.
Previously: Teams, Outlook, and Exchange email users, calendar users, and others around the world are being affected by a massive outage that crippled Microsoft 365 on Monday.
On the Downdector website, outages were reported to have begun to bubble overnight into a massive spike beginning at around 8 a.m. A. There were 4,350 complaints this morning, mostly about Exchange. Microsoft said it “identified a recent change” that it believes is the cause of the issue and began to “revert the change” while “investigating what additional actions are required.” Microsoft has been posting updates on X, formerly Twitter, throughout the morning. “”.
According to the tech giant, it has “begun to deploy a fix” and is also “starting manual restarts on a subset of machines that are in an unhealthy state.”. “”.
It claimed that the fix had reached roughly “98 percent of our affected environments” by noon ET. “.”.
The problems today come after a July meltdown caused by a tainted update from a cybersecurity company called CrowdStrike that destroyed Microsoft Windows-based systems and computers worldwide, including those in banks, airlines, railroads, healthcare facilities, and other industries. Devices also needed to be manually rebooted as part of the fix.
Microsoft has not disclosed the nature of the “change” that it discovered today that caused the problems.
