{"id":369707,"date":"2020-10-01T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=369707"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:46:07","slug":"microsoft-outlook-is-down-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/369707-microsoft-outlook-is-down-worldwide.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Outlook is down worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft’s Outlook email service and has suffered a global outage, affecting the web, desktop, and mobile email platforms.<\/p>\n

Microsoft confirmed that users worldwide are having problems accessing their Exchange Online accounts.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve collected additional data from the affected infrastructures to determine the impact to our Exchange online protocols,” Microsoft said<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Additionally, we\u2019ve identified this issue to be affecting users worldwide. Further details can be found in your admin centre under EX223208.”<\/p>\n

The company added that it is reviewing recent changes to its service to further determine the cause of impact.<\/p>\n

“Users may experience problems with various Exchange Online protocols including Outlook desktop, mobile devices as well as those dependent on REST functionality,” Microsoft said.<\/p>\n

Downdetector<\/strong><\/a> has also reported a major increase in downtime reports for Office 365. 66% of these reports are related to Outlook specifically, with 20% related to server connection issues.<\/p>\n

\"Office<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent outage<\/h3>\n

This is the second time this week that Microsoft Cloud Services went down around the world.<\/p>\n

On 28 September, Microsoft suffered an outage<\/strong><\/a> which affected its most popular cloud services – Teams, Outlook, and Office 365.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re investigating an issue affecting access to multiple Microsoft 365 services. We\u2019re working to identify the full impact and will provide more information shortly,\u201d the company said in a status update.<\/p>\n

The company later explained that a recent update was the cause of the outage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve identified a recent change that appears to be the source of the issue. We\u2019re rolling back the change to mitigate the impact,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Now read: Microsoft cloud services suffer global outage<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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