Microsoft 365 Outage Halts Daily Operations for Users Worldwide
Microsoft 365 faces a worldwide outage that impacted critical services like Outlook, teams, exchange and other services. On Monday, most of the users took social media and down detector to report about the complexities about the services. Let’s check out more updates on this latest tech world news.
Users Mostly faced issues with emails, calendars and opening apps like teams, PowerPoint, etc. The very first report in India was reported around 11.15 pm and raised around 3.15 pm.
Moreover, more than 5300 people reported by 6pm and 85% of reports were from issues with outlook whereas 9% where with SharePoint and exchange.
Microsoft responded to the issue on its status page, and it stated that these disruptions are due to a ‘recent change’. It further clarified that the issue came from a recent update or configuration change, and they were in process of reverting it back. The outage lasted for almost 7 hours.
At evening, Microsoft stated that it has fixed 98% of impacted environments, though targeted restarts for a subset of affected systems continued. Moreover, they warned that the process and progress was slower than expected and offer no exact time for full resolution.
Microsoft stated that, we’ve started to deploy a fix which is currently progressing through the affected environment. While this progresses, we’re beginning manual restarts on a subset of machines that are in an unhealthy state. For more information, please refer to MO941162 in the admin center,” the company’s initial update said.
We’re facing delays in our recovery efforts and are taking immediate action to address them. We understand the significant impact of this event on your business and are working to provide relief as soon as possible. More details can be found in the admin center under MO941162,” said the latest update.
Our fix has reached approximately 98% of the affected environments and our targeted restarts required for mitigation are being performed as quickly as possible. Additional details can be found in the admin center under MO941162,” the company said in a later post.
Previous Outages by Microsoft
Microsoft global outages are not different for the newbies, as they have previously impacted a wide range of users. A similar incident took place on July 24 caused by a corrupted update from a cybersecurity firm named CrowdStrike, which had a domino impact on systems around the globe, including the banking and healthcare sectors.
Besides these outages, Microsoft has the ability to immediately respond to identify its issues and apply the necessary actions that decrease the impact.
However, the lack of transparency regarding changes of nature raises complaints and concerns among IT professionals and users worldwide.
