Global Microsoft Outlook Email outage!

[canamjhb]

I've spent the last hour and a half trying to get my Microsoft Outlook email open. Tried lots of things and different ways. Just saw a caption banner on my TV advising that the system is down nation-wide. Sure wish there was a better way to notify us so us old guys don't spend eternity chasing our tails. I do have a backup secondary gmail account but there was nothing on there about the Outlook problem.

 

[UtahPete]

I've spent the last hour and a half trying to get my Microsoft Outlook email open. Tried lots of things and different ways. Just saw a caption banner on my TV advising that the system is down nation-wide. Sure wish there was a better way to notify us so us old guys don't spend eternity chasing our tails. I do have a backup secondary gmail account but there was nothing on there about the Outlook problem.

Might be a virus. Be careful.

 

[Peter Aawen]

Might be a virus. Be careful.

It's not a virus, it's a Global Outage affecting several Microsoft Suite platforms, including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot.

There's a Service Health Status notice right at the bottom of the Microsoft 365 dropdown, and it's posted there only because Microsoft 365 Administrators may be unable to access the Admin center to get Service Health info, but it's a World Wide Major Outage caused by 'a large number of servers being made unexpectedly unavailable', altho Microsoft is now saying 'there are now a subset of servers back online and they are working to apply those changes more broadly', so some users may be getting access back to their emails.

 

[Bfromla]

All that spam mail fermented & servers puked

 

[Little Blue]

It is just the way the internet systems work. Way too many hackers
trying to mess up anything used for good. I try to use the internet
as little as possible. Just don't trust this system anymore. Now AI is
Not your friend. Just wanted to let everyone know.

 

[RangerRick]

It's not a virus, it's a Global Outage affecting several Microsoft Suite platforms, including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot.

There's a Service Health Status notice right at the bottom of the Microsoft 365 dropdown, and it's posted there only because Microsoft 365 Administrators may be unable to access the Admin center to get Service Health info, but it's a World Wide Major Outage caused by 'a large number of servers being made unexpectedly unavailable', altho Microsoft is now saying 'there are now a subset of servers back online and they are working to apply those changes more broadly', so some users may be getting access back to their emails.

I use Fastmail, based in your neck of the woods Never have had an issue with them for over 6 years.

 

[pegasus1300]

My wife is tryimg to transfer our tickets for the BYU /Baylor game and got caught in that mess. Hope it clears soon.

 

[UtahPete]

It is just the way the internet systems work. Way too many hackers
trying to mess up anything used for good. I try to use the internet
as little as possible. Just don't trust this system anymore. Now AI is
Not your friend. Just wanted to let everyone know.

That has not been my experience.

I didn't realize there were so many people using Outlook still. It became more of a tool for organizational teams long ago, I thought.

 

[JayBros]

I began seeing some unusual alerts last evening and hearg on the news this moring the problem involves Microsoft 365 and, in my case Outlook 365. I received a lot of email messages overnight but early this morning 0720 or so couldn't send email, and also got an message when trying to save Word and Excel documents that said the program had saved the document but couldn't upload it because the servers were busy. Sometimes progress can bite us in the backside.

 

[canamjhb]

Just checked my service and it's up and running. Seems to be even faster than I remember......