{"id":58172,"date":"2026-11-13T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58172"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:47:45","slug":"microsoft-struggling-to-restore-service-as-global-outage-affects-outlook-and-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/microsoft-struggling-to-restore-service-as-global-outage-affects-outlook-and-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>BBC<\/strong>: Microsoft is struggling to fix a major global outage of its service that is reportedly affecting tens of thousands of users.<\/p>\n<p>Services including Teams, Outlook and Microsoft&#8217;s artificial intelligence software Copilot have been affected by &#8220;connectivity problems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,&#8221; the company wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of problems with Outlook peaked globally at nearly 140,000 around 18:00 GMT on Thursday, according to monitoring website Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC understands there is no indication the outage was caused by a cyber-attack.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption affects programs that are part of Microsoft 365 &#8211; a popular online service among businesses that allows them to use workplace tools like Outlook, Teams and OneDrive.<\/p>\n<p>For international organisations, this platform is essential for connecting and collaborating with colleagues around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Among the issues, users may be unable to view certain files or details on their calendar apps, Microsoft said.<br \/>\nIts AI platform, Copilot, may also be unable to work properly.<\/p>\n<p>Messaging and online meetings were largely functional, the firm added.\u00a0Microsoft said on X that the outage was caused by a number of servers &#8220;being unexpectedly unavailable&#8221;, straining its remaining systems.<\/p>\n<p>The company is working to address the issues with its services, said a Microsoft spokesperson.\u00a0&#8220;We appreciate our customers&#8217; patience while we work to restore services as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company later warned that some services that had been restored &#8220;can become unresponsive again&#8221;, adding that customers &#8220;in any region&#8221; could be affected. Users around the world including the US, Japan and Singapore have reported facing disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Microsoft is struggling to fix a major global outage of its service that is reportedly affecting tens of thousands of users. Services including Teams, Outlook and Microsoft&#8217;s artificial intelligence software Copilot have been affected by &#8220;connectivity problems&#8221;. &#8220;We&#8217;re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,&#8221; the company wrote on X. Reports of problems with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58175,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58172\/revisions\/58175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}