Microsoft Office 365 Monitoring - Service Outages

Read the latest updates, root causes, and resolutions on Microsoft Office 365 service outages.

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Office 365 Monitoring: Exchange Online Outage January 27, 2021

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On January 27, 2021, at ~9:30 pm UTC, Microsoft gave a first report of an issue that was preventing users from accessing email in the North American region via Exchange Online.

Shortly after, Microsoft reported that they had identified that a recently deployed configuration change to a specific portion of their infrastructure may be the cause of this issue for some users.

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Office 365 Monitoring: SharePoint Online/OneDrive Outage Jan. 12, 2021

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On January 12, 2021 at ~4:45 pm UTC, Microsoft reported an issue with SharePoint and OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams.

Shortly after, Microsoft confirmed that these issues were part of the same problem and that services were recovering. They were still attempting to discover the root cause of the problem and informed users that more information could be found in the admin center.

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Office 365 Monitoring: Microsoft 365 Admin Center Outage Jan. 5, 2021

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On January 5, 2021, at ~3:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported an issue affecting users in the UK that may be preventing them from accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Roughly 2 hours later, they confirmed that a portion of their processing infrastructure wasn't handling requests as expected and that they were repairing the problem to restore service access for affected users.

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Office 365 Monitoring: Microsoft 365 Services Outage December 14, 2020

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On December 14, 2020  at ~7:45 am UTC, Microsoft reported an issue affecting users throughout Europe that may be preventing them from accessing Microsoft 365 services.

Shortly after, Microsoft reported that they had identified an issue with components which facilitate authentication requests. They also reported that they had performed optimizations and rerouted user requests in an effort to remediate impact.

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