Affected user of Outlook Email Server Issues - What is the timeline for restoration

Microsoft has not published a guaranteed restoration time for the current Outlook/Microsoft 365 disruption; the latest reported milestone is a status update scheduled for November 13, 2026, at 5:30 AM GMT+7, which is an update time—not a commitment that service will be restored by then.^1^

Microsoft 365 business or work account

Ask your Microsoft 365 administrator to check the tenant-specific incident:

1. Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
2. Go to Health → Service health.
3. Open Active issues Microsoft is working on.
4. Select the Outlook/Exchange Online incident to review its status, user impact, latest update, and recovery progress.

Microsoft posts ongoing investigation, mitigation, and resolution updates on that incident page. Administrators assigned the Service Support admin or Helpdesk admin role can also view Service health.^2^

To receive updates automatically, the administrator can open the incident, select Manage notifications for this issue, and configure email notifications. Because this is a service-side incident, changing Outlook profiles or reinstalling the client is unlikely to restore access while multiple connection methods are affected.

Personal Outlook.com account

Monitor Microsoft’s public service-status page for recovery announcements.^3^ Microsoft Support also directs Outlook.com users experiencing access problems to that status page.^4^

If the public page reports the service as restored but your mailbox remains unavailable, use Help in Outlook.com and continue to Still need help? → Yes to contact Outlook.com support.

References

1. Outlook outage 11-12-26 - Microsoft Q&A
2. How to check Microsoft 365 service health
3. Microsoft service health status
4. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues on Outlook.com | Microsoft Support