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Technical Alerts

Global Microsoft outage affecting Outlook email, Teams and other tools

by Matt Cannon
November 2026

We are currently aware of a widespread Microsoft service disruption that is affecting multiple services and companies globally.

Some services including emails are still affected and maybe experiencing delays or disruptions. Microsoft is actively investigating and we are monitoring the situation closely. 

Updates direct from Microsoft can be monitored here:

https://status.cloud.microsoft

We will add to this page with updates as soon as we get them. 


Users may be unable to access or perform several actions in Microsoft 365 services.

Friday, November 13, 2026 at 10:26:34 AM

We’re continuing to pursue multiple workstreams to pinpoint the source of the issue and ensure the recovery of the affected environment. This issue impacts Outlook.com, OneDrive, OneNote, Microsoft To Do, Teams, and Microsoft 365 for the web although you may also see issues in other Microsoft 365 services.

Recovery efforts are ongoing across impacted infrastructure.

We are seeing early signs of stabilization, but service capacity has not yet returned to normal levels and health remains variable as traffic is carefully reintroduced.

Our primary mitigation path continues to focus on service stability and controlled recovery. Engineering teams are cycling affected infrastructure through traffic drain, restart, remediation, and staged return-to-service while monitoring closely. We are also evaluating additional mitigation options to improve recovery speed and consistency.

Network and traffic-management actions remain in progress, and we continue to prioritize backlog and queue health to preserve delayed mail during recovery.

As part of this effort, we are extending the email timeout window to 48 hours to help protect delayed messages while service recovery continues.

At this time, we are not aware of any malicious activity causing this incident. We will continue to treat this with urgency until full mitigation, and we will share a full Post-Incident Report with root cause and defense-in-depth actions after recovery is complete.

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