GoKawiilMicrosoft Outlook suffers widespread outage tied to infrastructure load
Users globally reported being unable to access Outlook email via web and apps for over an hour. Microsoft's 365 Status account confirmed a portion of its infrastructure was experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, causing connectivity errors, with some Teams users also affected.
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Microsoft says it has redistributed traffic and restarted affected servers, but has not confirmed whether the surge was genuine demand or a routing issue, leaving the root cause unresolved. Difficulty loading Microsoft's own status pages during the incident suggests the disruption may have been broader than the company's public messaging indicated.
- Outlook access failures hit users worldwide for over an hour via web and apps.
- Microsoft attributed the issue to elevated infrastructure load across multiple regions.
- Microsoft is still investigating whether a genuine traffic spike or routing shift caused the outage.
Source: theverge.com — Richard Lawler, 2026-11-12
Published there as: “Microsoft Outlook is down”
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