Microsoft Service Incident MO1221364 on January 22, 2026
On January 22, 2026, a significant service incident began affecting Microsoft 365 users throughout North America, causing widespread accessibility issues and feature failures.
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Microsoft Azure Front Door Outage – October 29, 2025
On October 29, 2025, customers and Microsoft services that were leveraging Azure Front Door (AFD) experienced latencies, timeouts, and errors. Numerous downstream services were impacted.
Microsoft reported this outage on the Microsoft 365 Service Health Page as MO1181369.
Microsoft 365 Intermittent Issues – 26 Dec 2024
On 26 December 2024, a data center power event caused intermittent connection issues to downstream Microsoft 365 services.
Microsoft reported this outage on the Microsoft 365 Service Health Page as MO966473.
Pre-Thanksgiving 2024 Microsoft Outage
Did the latest Microsoft outage impact your company? On November 25, 2024, just days before Thanksgiving, Microsoft users experienced issues with Microsoft 365 features and services. By noon Eastern time, more than 5,300 people globally had reported issues with Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, and Teams.
Microsoft 365 Outage Impacts North American Region
On September 12, 2024, Microsoft users reported issues accessing Microsoft 365 services such as Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Azure AD. According to
Downdetector
, a platform that reports on status information for online services, more than 20,000 users were impacted by the outage.
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Microsoft 365 & Azure Services Impacted by Microsoft MFA Network Issues
A global IT outage affected Microsoft 365 and Azure Services on July 30, 2024. The issue was traced back to a DDoS attack, which caused performance issues with Azure Front Door (AFD) and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) .
Global Microsoft Outage caused by CrowdStrike Update Underscores the Benefits of Microsoft 365 Monitoring
A global IT outage significantly impacted Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure services and countless businesses, starting on July 18, 2024. The issue was traced back to an update to the Crowdstrike Falcon agent, which caused widespread disruptions.
Dark Days for Microsoft and Teams
In the wake of the embarrassing and widely publicized Midnight Blizzard app breach, are you are aware that Microsoft also suffered from a massive Teams outage on 1/26/24 for almost 13 hours, which substantially impacted global communication abilities?! And then again on 1/29/24?!
It would have been hard for many out there NOT to have felt the pain at some point…
Microsoft Customers Unable to Send/Receive Emails During Exchange Online Outage
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, July 18th, at approximately 4:47 AM EST, Microsoft communicated via @MSFT365status that they were looking into a service incident issue in which "some" users may have been unable to send Exchange Online emails. In this initial tweet, Microsoft was very quick with specifics as to the cause: a recent change to its free/busy infrastructure.
Microsoft 365 Service Issues Continue with Outlook and Teams Outages
On back-to-back days this week, customers and users of Microsoft Outlook (June 27th) and Microsoft Teams (June 28th) were unable to access these services. Initially, Microsoft communicated these service issues to its customers and indicated that the impacts were isolated to its North American customers, but community responses and feedback suggested the impacts stretched beyond the NA region.