Microsoft says it has "rolled back a network change" it thinks may be linked to tens of thousands of worldwide users being unable to access its services, including Teams and Outlook.

 

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 5,000 people in the UK had reported the email service Outlook was inaccessible.

Other services including Teams and Xbox Live were also reported as not working.

 

Microsoft said it was "monitoring the service" as the change takes effect.

 

Previously, the firm said it had "isolated the problem to networking configuration issues" and was analysing the "best mitigation strategy to address these without causing additional impact".

 

Microsoft also said it was investigating a connectivity issue with its cloud computing service, Azure, affecting what it called "a subset of users".

 

Microsoft Teams is used by more than 280 million people globally, primarily in businesses and schools, where it can be of critical importance for calls, meetings and general service organisation.

 

According to Downdetector, issues have been reported in many countries around the world, with thousands of reports in India and Japan alone.

 

As well as Teams and Outlook, the services affected according to the Microsoft 365 status page are SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Graph, PowerBi, and Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

 

It says on the page that "any user serviced by the affected infrastructure may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services".

 

Job cuts and sales down

 

The disruption comes a day after Microsoft reported its sales rose only 2% in the three months to December, to $52.7bn (£42.8bn) - with overall profits falling by 12% to $16.4bn.

 

This slowdown in sales accounts for the corporation's smallest quarterly increase in more than six years.

 

Meanwhile, on 19 January, Microsoft announced it would reduce its workforce by roughly 5%, eliminating 10,000 jobs.

 

It is the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry, and will cost the business $1.2bn in severance and reorganisation costs.

Microsoft has been approached for comment.

 

-- BBC 2023-01-25

UPDATE:

Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's Computing Cloud Platform is down

 

Jan 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Wednesday was hit with a networking outage that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, potentially affecting millions of users globally.

 

Azure's status page showed services were impacted in Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Only services in China and its platform for governments were not hit.

 

An outage of Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure can impact a variety of services and create a domino effect as almost all of the world's largest companies use the platform.

 

-- Reuters and others 2023-01-25

Microsoft’s services Down -Microsoft Teams -Exchange Online -Outlook -SharePoint Online -OneDrive for Business - Microsoft Graph

 

My outlook email is OK as of 2 minutes ago.

UPDATE:

 

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions around the globe.

 

-- Yahoo Finance 2023-01-25

Woops! Off-shore techie put a comma in the wrong place...... shouldn't have fired all them people eh Microsoft?

 

Meanwhile Rishi Sunaks' father-in-law gets richer and richer......

I've recently experimented with switching from Goole to Bing for my searches.

 

The results were so surprisingly good that I yesterday set Bing to my default search engine. Literally the next search I made after that led me to a "Sorry Bing is having difficulties right now" message.

 

That was pretty comical timing!

11 hours ago, billd766 said:

My outlook email is OK as of 2 minutes ago.

My outlook web mail was unresponsive for maybe 30 minutes yesterday and at the time down detector had no reports of the outage. So there was me running scans of my system................