{"id":1236161,"date":"2025-03-01T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236161"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:51:00","slug":"microsoft-outage-leaves-tens-of-thousands-unable-to-access-email-and-other-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236161","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands Unable to Access Email and Other Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,&#8221; reports CNBC:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,&#8221; Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The number of reports that services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were down spiked after 3:30 p.m. ET. More than 37,000 individuals reported an Outlook outage and roughly 24,000 reported an outage in the tech company&#8217;s 365 service, according to Downdetector, while roughly 150 users reported their Teams accounts were down.<br \/>\nOne hour ago Microsoft posted on X.com that &#8220;We&#8217;ve identified a potential cause of impact and have reverted the suspected code to alleviate impact. We&#8217;re monitoring telemetry to confirm recovery&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Minutes later they added that &#8220;Our telemetry indicates that a majority of impacted services are recovering following our change. We&#8217;ll keep monitoring until impact has been resolved for all services.&#8221; And the official status page for Microsoft Office says &#8220;We&#8217;ve confirmed that reverting the impacting service update has returned the service to a healthy state. We&#8217;ve entered a period of extended monitoring to ensure that the service remains stable, and to address any outstanding impact to other Microsoft 365 services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Microsoft+Outage+Leaves+Tens+of+Thousands+Unable+to+Access+Email+and+Other+Apps%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F01%2F2348212%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/twitter_icon_large-10.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F01%2F2348212%2Fmicrosoft-outage-leaves-tens-of-thousands-unable-to-access-email-and-other-apps%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/facebook_icon_large-10.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/03\/01\/2348212\/microsoft-outage-leaves-tens-of-thousands-unable-to-access-email-and-other-apps?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23624617&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,&#8221; reports CNBC: &#8220;We&#8217;re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,&#8221; Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}