Outage hits Outlook and Microsoft 365
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A Microsoft 365 outage disrupted Outlook access this Thursday (12). Users in Brazil and the United States reported trouble opening their inbox and sending emails. Downdetector logged more than 130,000 reports about Outlook in the US, and Microsoft said it is investigating the Exchange Online instability.
Users of Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services reported access issues this Thursday (12), with instability reported in Brazil and the United States. Microsoft confirmed it is investigating an issue with Exchange Online, the corporate email platform integrated into the suite.
In the United States, Downdetector received more than 130,000 notifications about Outlook problems by 3:27 p.m. Brasília time. The site also logged more than 46,000 reports about Microsoft 365 and about 3,000 about Teams.
Reported issues included difficulty opening the inbox, sending messages and accessing corporate accounts. The outages were recorded in the web version as well as in the desktop and mobile apps.
Microsoft said the instability may affect connections to Microsoft 365 services in other regions. Earlier, the company had announced a fix for a Teams outage that affected users in North America.
With information from Reuters and UOL, a major Brazilian news portal.
Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese original · Read the original