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Microsoft, one of the world’s largest tech giants, is experiencing issues with their Microsoft 365 platform.
Thousands throughout the world are expressing frustrations when trying to access their Outlook, Teams and any other application that falls under their 365 banner.
The outage is impacting businesses, government organizations and everything else that uses their system.
Many municipalities across the valley are asking in the absence of email, please contact their offices by phone until the issue is resolved.
Microsoft says on their Service Health Status page that:
“We’re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we’ve paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We’ve determined that the elevated load isn’t driven by an overall increase in traffic, but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, which is shifting load onto the remaining infrastructure. We’re investigating what’s causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service.”
Applications affected are:
- Outlook
- Teams
- Sharepoint
- Exchange Online
- Copilot
- Defender
Others may intermittently be affected while work is done to fix the issue.
Microsoft says they will release another update on the outage by 5 p.m. EST.
(Written by: Bob Kubbinga)