Microsoft Office 365 Monitoring - Service Outages

On July 9, 2020 at ~12:00 pm UTC Microsoft reported that they were investigating an issue where users in the UK are unable to access the Exchange Online service through the Outlook client.

Shortly after, several UK users began expressing their frustration with the recent increase in the number of outages users have experienced all over the world. Some expressed frustrations recommending Microsoft services to their clients and others insisted that the they were still experiencing issues hours later.

On July 8, 2020 at 2:45 pm UTC, Microsoft reported an issue affecting a multitude of users in North America that prevented them from joining Microsoft Teams meetings.

The issue persisted just over an hour until Microsoft finally reported at roughly 4:00 pm UTC that the issue had been resolved.

On June 30^th, 2020 at ~12:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported that they were investigating an issue where many users in Germany were unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.

Shortly after, around ~12:45 pm UTC, Microsoft reported that they had determined that the Microsoft 365 service was healthy and that the issue was caused by a third-party local internet service provider.

On June 25^th, 2020 at ~2:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported that they were investigating connectivity problems with Outlook in Europe and the United Kingdom.

Roughly an hour later, Microsoft reported that they were starting to see service restoration and were still monitoring the issue closely to ensure the issue was resolved.

On June 19^th, 2020 at ~7:00am UTC, Microsoft reported that they were investigating an issue where users in Japan and the APAC region were unable to access the Microsoft Teams service through desktop client.

Roughly an hour later at ~8:30 am UTC, Microsoft reported that the issue had been mitigated and that access had been restored through Japan and APAC.

On June 18^th, 2020 at ~7:00am UTC, Microsoft reported an issue that was causing problems receiving messages in Microsoft Teams throughout North America.

They soon after reported that they were rerouting service traffic through alternate infrastructure and tentatively started to recover.

On June 15^th at ~1:00pm UTC, Microsoft reported an issue with Outlook client within Europe.

They soon after reported that the issue may be preventing users from connecting to Exchange online when using Outlook client and they were continuing to troubleshoot the issue.

On Monday June 15 at ~12:00am UTC, Microsoft reported a Microsoft 365 services outage.

Microsoft 365 status reported that some users may be experiencing issues when attempting to access Microsoft 365 services in the Oceana region and stated that more information could be found in the admin portal.

On June 3, 2020 at ~1:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported an issue in which users from Brazil were not able to connect to Microsoft 365 services.

At ~3:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported that the previous issue had been resolved and that further details could be found in the admin center.

On May 18^th, 2020 at ~9:30am UTC, Microsoft reported that some users in Northern and Western Europe may experience problems accessing Microsoft Forms.

Some expressed concerns that the admin center was not updated with the current issues. While others expressed they were still experiencing issues and were concerned regarding when it would be resolved.