Microsoft ‘restarting’ as outage impacts global users, with Outlook and Teams affected

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

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Published Nov 12, 2026

Microsoft ‘restarting’ as outage impacts global users, with Outlook and Teams affected

Microsoft says it is “aggressively pursuing all pathways” after users reported issues accessing its 365 suite of programs, including Outlook and Teams.

On Friday morning, outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with almost 50,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services like SharePoint and OneDrive.

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