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In case you didn’t already know. Last night the global software and internet services giant, Microsoft, suffered a significant global outage across services from Exchange Online to Teams, Outlook and the 365 platform (Copilot, Office etc.), which is currently still ongoing and will this morning also be impacting services used by various UK mobile and broadband providers too.
Several initial attempts to fix the issue, which began at just after 4pm yesterday evening after an unspecified core process running on some of its cloud servers became “overwhelmed” (Microsoft said its servers started to “fail automated health checks and become unavailable” – putting too much load on those that were still live), were unsuccessful and thus the problem has dragged on into Friday morning.
The latest service status update from Microsoft states that they’re “continuing to monitor activity across regions to evaluate server status and determine actions that can be taken to improve capacity. This includes reviewing server performance and confirming that developed patches have been applied and working as intended after infrastructure reboots are completed. At this point, we have observed marginal success.”