Global Microsoft outage affecting Outlook and Teams users, with company ‘restarting’ servers

An alert on Microsoft’s site said it was ‘aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact’ and blamed a server issue

Microsoft says its servers are beginning to return to service after a global outage resulted in nearly 130,000 users globally reporting issues accessing its 365 suite of software, including Outlook and Teams.

Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint and OneDrive. AI assistant Copilot was also affected.