Microsoft Outlook.com is slowly recovering after a major outage that started late last night. Microsoft’s status page said at the time, “We recently identified a change that may cause problems with sending, receiving, or email search within Outlook.com. We are working to identify next steps to restore access to the service.” working for.”
Shortly thereafter, the company reported that users in North America were primarily affected, and that it was “working to restart the affected infrastructure parts”. Its next update revealed that functions such as Calendar were also affected, which in turn affected products such as Microsoft Teams.
As of 9:30 a.m. EST, Microsoft said, “We can see from telemetry that most of the impact has been removed with 99.9 percent service availability. We are continuing to monitor the environment and back-end mailbox components.” Performing targeted restarts that show residual effects to ensure recovery for all users.” Although by 10:30 a.m. downdetector Was still reporting the outage.
UpdatesMicrosoft has reported that all services are now operating normally, adding, “Root cause: A subset of the infrastructure responsible for routing traffic unexpectedly stopped responding to traffic requests.” Is done.”
We’ll update this story when more details become available.
