Microsoft's massive M365 outage stretches past 12 hours as its fixes keep failing
In Australia, they’re calling it the “Microsoft long weekend” – an outage so pervasive it’s just about made Friday a write-off at organizations which rely on Redmond’s online services, especially Exchange Online.
Key points
- It’s also using changed the language it uses when discussing the possibility a cyberattack is the reason for the outage.
- We’re tracking the results of this approach to verify the servers are showing the anticipated recovery and performance intended.” Hopefully, Australia and other countries in nearby time zones won’t be the only ones to get an unscheduled long weekend.
- “We’re continuing to pursue multiple workstreams to pinpoint the underlying cause of the traffic influx and advance the recoverability of the backend servers,” Microsoft wrote.
As The Register reported yesterday, the outage started on Thursday at around 18:00 UTC and saw Microsoft 365 users unable to access email, attend Teams meetings, use cloud PCs, consult Copilot, or enjoy full access to another 15 hosted services.
Additional details
- “We’re taking a measured approach to identify and repair affected infrastructure to improve the ability to confirm the developed changes were applied.
- However, we are encountering issues with the machines being stuck in a bad state, preventing our changes from syncing as expected.
- Microsoft’s latest status update doesn’t suggest this will be over any time soon.
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