Is Microsoft Experiencing an Outage

Sunda Liparoto 0 Reputation points
2026-11-12T18:02:51.9+00:00

Many of my co-workers have been kicked out of outlook and unable to get back in. Is there an outage of some sort?

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  1. AI answer

    2026-11-12T18:04:20.41+00:00

    There are current indications of an Outlook/Microsoft 365 disruption today, November 12, 2026, but your Microsoft 365 tenant’s Service health dashboard is the authoritative place to confirm whether your organization is affected.^1^

    Check your organization’s status

    A Microsoft 365 administrator should:

    1. Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
    2. Go to Health → Service health.
    3. In Overview, check Exchange Online and Office on the web.
    4. Open any incident or advisory matching forced sign-outs or sign-in failures. The details provide the affected services, user impact, current status, and Microsoft’s latest mitigation updates.^2^

    Service Support administrators and Helpdesk administrators can also view Service health. If nobody can access the admin center, use Microsoft’s public service-status page. Public user reports are also elevated for Outlook, although third-party reports do not confirm that a particular tenant is affected.^3^

    What to do next

    • If an incident is listed: Monitor its updates and avoid resetting multiple users’ passwords or rebuilding Outlook profiles unless Microsoft specifically directs you to do so. Microsoft posts investigation, mitigation, recovery, and resolution updates in the incident.
    • If no incident is listed: In Health → Service health, select Report an issue and submit the organization-wide sign-in symptoms. Microsoft correlates reports across tenants and adds an incident or advisory when the problem is service-side.^2^
    • Because several coworkers were disconnected simultaneously, check service health before doing workstation-level Outlook repairs; Microsoft specifically recommends this when multiple users are reporting Microsoft 365 email problems.^4^

    References

    1. Microsoft service health status
    2. How to check Microsoft 365 service health
    3. Microsoft Outlook down? Current problems and outages | US
    4. Fix Outlook connection problems for Microsoft 365 account
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  2. Kevin Mack 0 Reputation points
    2026-11-12T23:06:03.35+00:00

    been down since around noon and still can't access the rather expensive microsoft365 suite we pay for... I don't even host my email with outlook, it should just be referencing imap/pop3 setup... why would microsofts servers having issues stop my locally installed outlook from working for email hosted elsewhere? any update on when this is expected to be resolved?

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  3. SarasaWorks 0 Reputation points
    2026-11-13T02:35:31.7766667+00:00

    Basically, someone thought it would be cute to leave a Large Language Model in charge of the servers. Smooth move, Microsoft. Smooth, move.

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  4. Derrick 0 Reputation points
    2026-11-13T03:53:02.1766667+00:00

    And this is just a normal thing for MS isn't it. Should have been putting all that engineering time ensuing shit like this doesn't happen or gets fixed in minutes if it does, not funneling shit into AI slop everywhere.

    It's not like this shit is free, either.

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  5. XX 0 Reputation points
    2026-11-13T01:01:43.62+00:00

    still down, 5 pm PST. cannot log into my hotmail account. Cannot receive or send messages.

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