GoKawiilMicrosoft Outlook and Teams outage stretches into second day
A widespread outage affecting Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel began Thursday morning and remained unresolved by the following day. Microsoft said it ruled out a cyber-attack and attributed the problem to elevated server load, with over 10,000 Down Detector reports still logged by evening even after partial fixes.
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The prolonged recovery suggests the root cause may be more complex than initial server overload explanations, especially since Microsoft reported that restored servers became unresponsive again under traffic. This points to deeper infrastructure or configuration issues, which could raise questions among enterprise customers about reliability of Microsoft's cloud services for core business functions like email and collaboration.
- Outage has lasted more than a full day, affecting Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot globally.
- Microsoft says there is no evidence of a cyber-attack; it points to server overload and possibly recent configuration changes.
- Servers restored to service have repeatedly become unresponsive again, prompting Microsoft to limit traffic types reaching affected infrastructure.
Source: techspot.com — Kishalaya Kundu, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “Microsoft struggles to restore Outlook, Teams, and other services as global outage enters second day”
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