Outlook down

Purgatory · 2026-11-13T08:57:06+0000

Was wondering how many of us in UK are hit by this. Of course can't use outlook and teams seems to be flaky too and just randomly locks up or restarts here. This is the perfect example of why cloud computing is becoming a serious issue when you can't login into the most basic of services that are linked by a single account..

I heard about the issue yesterday evening for USA but my Microsoft stuff seemed to be still working, I didn't log out in fear it may not log back in, but this morning all not working or seem like working and not really. Ohh got to love the modern world.

Nabinium · 2026-11-13T08:59:13+0000

Microsoft says its attempts to fix the issue are not "going as expected"

Sounds like turning it off and on is not working.

LiE · 2026-11-13T08:59:17+0000

Quick check this morning and all seems OK for me. I can see the MI is still open with quite a number of child Incidents.

Armageus · 2026-11-13T08:59:36+0000

JonRGV250 said:
May as well rename to Microsoft 364

That's somewhat optimistic.

Fortunately we use Google Workspace at our site (unlike our head office who are 365/Azure) and have had maybe 1 hour of actual outage in the last 10 years

Glanza · 2026-11-13T08:59:40+0000

Went down around 20:00 last night, affecting both personal and business aka M365 services, come into work this morning and still down. Some devices will open Outlook others are stuck on loading profile.

Can tell who doesn't listen / look at the news in a morning with the amount of calls we've taken about 'my emails aren't working'

Coolasmoo · 2026-11-13T09:01:25+0000

Were completely down here, going out on an appointment in half an hour so not too bothered.

Just goes to show we shouldn't rely on one company to manage our services.

Purgatory · 2026-11-13T09:01:25+0000

Nabinium said:
Microsoft says its attempts to fix the issue are not "going as expected"

Sounds like turning it off and on is not working.

The can't fix it because their brains are offline too aka Copilot.. Yes just read that they seem to be struggling even with them saying they know what the issue is.. :rolleyes:

Freakbro · 2026-11-13T09:02:13+0000

Strange....outlook, office, one drive all seems fine here

TellyTel · 2026-11-13T09:02:57+0000

Waiting on an email, going to nip down to the local sorting office see if I can retrieve it there.

ci_newman · 2026-11-13T09:03:46+0000

Freakbro said:
Strange....outlook, office, one drive all seems fine here

It depends if your business is using Microsofts 365 or on-prem Exchange.

It is the Microsoft hosted 365 that's affected.

Kenai · 2026-11-13T09:04:32+0000

Important stuff is working, managed to get expenses submitted

Martynt74 · 2026-11-13T09:05:02+0000

Nabinium said:
Got into work this morning and saw that Office 365 is down.

Well that was a short Friday.

Pub anyone?

Edit: damn, not open yet.

Wetherspoons should be

Nabinium · 2026-11-13T09:05:16+0000

Kenai said:
Important stuff is working, managed to get expenses submitted

Which stuff?

potatolord · 2026-11-13T09:05:22+0000

Typical.

I booked today off and have therefore wasted a day's leave.

AStaley · 2026-11-13T09:05:53+0000

Thankfully I’m not working today, seems Teams is working for us, but Outlook/Exchange is still out. But services do seem to be coming back online slowly.

Kenai · 2026-11-13T09:06:43+0000

Nabinium said:
Which stuff?

Our expenses system

Martynt74 · 2026-11-13T09:06:49+0000

Nabinium said:
Which stuff?

I assume he means his expense submission platform

john_smith · 2026-11-13T09:07:58+0000

OspreyO said:
Welcome to the cloud. Nothing much you can do about it.

Ironically I've some tech meetings MS all afternoon with luck these will be cancelled.

How will you know if they get cancelled :-)

el_dazza · 2026-11-13T09:09:04+0000

Sad to report Teams is working fine for us. Outlook is borked though.

slinxy · 2026-11-13T09:10:42+0000

JonRGV250 said:
May as well rename to Microsoft 364

funny enough, my fingers had a habit of typing that.. they used to joke at work... well "many a true thing said in jest"... lmao

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I was going to make a post about work emails yesterday and if anyone actually reads them.. because I don't.. the amount if e-waste that I get sent is unbelievable. Lucky that my boss understands and points me to the ones that I should actually read..

System reports and logs are useful.. but being CC'd into an email as someone took the wrong virtual turn and there's 60+ people in the same email chain with no one responding is just junk. Our email system at work seems to have moved down a risk category, I don't think it would be long until email is only given to the people who actually needs it due to lack of productive use and raising costs.