GoKawiilMicrosoft 365 outage persists as Outlook, Teams remain down for hours
Microsoft confirmed an ongoing disruption affecting Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services, saying engineers were still working to resolve the issue. The company said mitigation efforts had triggered a surge in outbound call traffic between its routing services and backend servers, complicating recovery, and that some machines remained stuck in a bad state preventing fixes from syncing properly.
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The prolonged nature of the outage, and Microsoft's own account of complications arising from its fixes, suggests the underlying infrastructure issue is more tangled than a simple server failure. Widespread reliance on Microsoft 365 for business communication means extended downtime can disrupt operations for large numbers of organizations simultaneously, amplifying pressure on Microsoft to resolve it quickly.
- Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services remain down amid an unresolved outage.
- Microsoft says its own mitigation attempts caused a surge in backend traffic, complicating repairs.
- Some servers are stuck in a 'bad state,' blocking recent network changes from taking effect.
Source: androidauthority.com, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services are still down as exec expresses ‘regret’”
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