> Is Microsoft Outlook down? Thousands report issues with platform

#1 2026-11-12 18:28:55

WASHINGTON — Thousands of users reported issues with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 on Thursday afternoon. 

According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports submitted by users, reports of outages began to spike around 1 p.m. ET, reaching more than 82,000 reports at its peak. Similarly, Microsoft 365 had over 15,000 reports of issues on Downdetector. 

The tech company confirmed the outage on X, saying it was investigating the issues on the platform.

"We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas. More details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX1550543," Microsoft said on its status page social media account.

It was not immediately known how soon the fix would be deployed. Microsoft said while it works to fix the issue for Outlook, some Microsoft 365 services may be impacted. 

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nati … aa084c18f8

Pleased be rebooting your modem, Sahib
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#2 2026-11-12 18:38:04

https://status.cloud.microsoft
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#3 2026-11-12 18:45:25

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#4 2026-11-12 18:45:27

 wrote:https://status.cloud.microsoft
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Also down.

#5 2026-11-12 19:32:13

I never saw much utility in Outlook.

#6 2026-11-12 20:22:06

 wrote:I never saw much utility in Outlook.
You sound unemployed.

#7 2026-11-12 20:26:48

Exchange Online is down. Teams is down.
I have stuff I could be doing, but I don't want to, so I'm sitting at my desk watching porn instead.
I won't get caught, I'm using incognito mode!
They won't catch me in incognito mode!
Right?  RIGHT????
fuq...

#8 2026-11-12 20:27:39

Spanky wrote:You sound unemployed.
I know enough to understand that digital is simply special case analog.  

#9 2026-11-12 20:30:21

 wrote:Exchange Online is down. Teams is down.
I have stuff I could be doing, but I don't want to, so I'm sitting at my desk watching porn instead.
I won't get caught, I'm using incognito mode!
They won't catch me in incognito mode!
Right?  RIGHT????
fuq...
That TLS channel isn't being terminated where you think it is being terminated.
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#10 2026-11-12 20:36:08

 wrote:I know enough to understand that digital is simply special case analog.  

Digital might be an abstraction of analog but it is not actually analog.

Electicity is obviously analog. High voltage might be abstracted to 1 and low voltage to 0. But that doesn't make digital a kind of analog.

#11 2026-11-12 20:43:11

Microsoft's best engineers are formbing a plan to turn all of their NT4 servers off then back on again, services should be back up shortly.
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#12 2026-11-12 20:53:26

Spanky wrote:Digital might be an abstraction of analog but it is not actually analog.

Electicity is obviously analog. High voltage might be abstracted to 1 and low voltage to 0. But that doesn't make digital a kind of analog.
We've spent well over 100 years learning how to modulate analog with increasing speed and precision.   That said it can also be more of an organizational metaphor. 

#13 2026-11-12 20:54:54

Happy little valves wrote:We've spent well over 100 years learning how to modulate analog with increasing speed and precision.   That said it can also be more of an organizational metaphor. 

That might be the best moniker ever.

#14 2026-11-12 21:43:28

It's fuqing fuqed. FUQED!!

#15 2026-11-12 21:46:47

lolchix

#16 2026-11-12 21:55:41

Microsoft just put out a call for anybody with spare RAM that lives near an Azure datacenter to head over and trade for free Copilot credits.

#17 2026-11-12 21:59:42

The graphics cards are having a moment of silence for their fallen CEO.

#18 2026-11-12 22:08:27

lolchix

#19 2026-11-12 22:09:17

Who can it be now? 
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#20 2026-11-12 22:19:37

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/artic … 33470.html

Microsoft (MSFT) said it was working to restore access to its workplace software after customers reported problems connecting to email and other services.

Users of Exchange Online, which powers Outlook email, as well as the company's Teams videoconferencing app and Copilot AI chatbot, may experience disruptions, Microsoft said on a status update page on Thursday. In a separate post on X, the company said users "in any region" could be affected.

Microsoft said it was rerouting connection traffic across its global infrastructure and restarting affected servers.

#21 2026-11-12 22:22:41

 wrote:... and restarting affected servers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8

#22 2026-11-12 22:24:12

computermad

#23 2026-11-12 22:36:31

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#24 2026-11-12 22:42:01

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#25 2026-11-12 22:54:52

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