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 #2 November 5, 2020

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On November 5th, 2020 at ~7:00pm UTC, Microsoft reported a second outage of the day preventing some users from accessing their mailboxes through Exchange Online via all connection methods.

Followers on Twitter expressed their frustration with the recent string of outages Microsoft has endured over recent months. While others took a lighter approach making jokes, some referencing Microsoft's Office 365 title suggesting "O265" may be a more fitting name.

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Office 365 Monitoring: Exchange Online Outage November 5, 2020

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On November 5th, 2020 at ~3:00pm UTC, Microsoft reported an outage preventing some users from accessing Exchange Online service, sending or receiving emails, and accessing the Exchange admin center.

Many in the community went to Twitter to express their frustration with Microsoft's delay in reporting the outage, while others brought up their frustrations with the recent string of outages Microsoft users have experienced over the last few months.

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Office 365 Monitoring: Microsoft Admin Center Outage October 20, 2020

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On October 20th at roughly ~7:45 pm UTC, Microsoft reported a problem preventing some users from accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Soon after they reported that users in North America were experiencing decreased impact indicating the event may be transient in nature but they were continuing to investigate the route cause of the issue.

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Office 365 Monitoring: Admin Center Outage October 18, 2020

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On October 18th at roughly ~1:00 am UTC, Microsoft reported that some users may be unable to view the Service Health Dashboard and Message Center Posts within the Admin Center.

Some users took to Twitter to defend Microsoft by stating that Microsoft had been dealing with increased volumes of users and could not have prepared for this due to the increased number of users working from home and the transition to online learning for most schools.

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