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Microsoft Global Outage Hits Outlook, Exchange, Teams & More; Company Blames “Recent Change” – Update


A massive outage at Microsoft has crippled Microsoft 365 and is impacting global users of Teams, Outlook and Exchange emails, calendars and more.

Microsoft, Exchange, Outlook, Microsoft 365Getty Images The Downdector website showed reports of outages starting to bubble overnight into a giant spike starting at about 8 am this morning up to 4,350 complaints, most around Exchange. The tech giant said it’s “started to deploy a fix” and meanwhile is “beginning manual restarts on a subset of machines that are in an unhealthy state.” The issues today follow a July meltdown after a corrupted update by a cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike crashed systems and computers around the world that were running Microsoft Windows, including banks, airlines, trains, health systems and other industries.

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