Microsoft 365 is a suite of productivity tools chosen by many companies, so everyone is used to sending and receiving emails with Microsoft Outlook, but if you find that the whole thing seems unstable this week, sometimes it is interrupted and cannot send and receive, and sometimes it seems that the entire mailbox has been emptied , please don’t worry, Microsoft is currently investigating this issue.
Aftershocks of Microsoft Outlook outage in North America spread across the world, Microsoft is investigating
Many users reported that there were problems when using Outlook.com to send, receive and search emails. Some people encountered problems connecting to Outlook.com, seeing a “500” error message when logging in, or the entire mailbox was clean and might not be read following logging in. to any mail. Microsoft is working to investigate and resolve a recent ongoing outage affecting the company’s Outlook e-mail service.
According to information shared on Twitter by the company’s Microsoft 365 Status, Microsoft is conducting a targeted reboot of parts of its infrastructure affected by recent changes. This entire incident originated last week and mainly affected North American users. Since the affected infrastructure included North America, the entire disaster spread to other parts of the world, even if it is not in North America, there will be some residual effects.
We’ve begun our targeted restarts to portions of our infrastructure that are impacted by the recent change. We’ll provide more detailed information via EX512238 in the admin center and https://t.co/nEuSQarMf3.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) February 7, 2023
microsoft in Microsoft Outlook outage prevents users from sending, receiving email (bleepingcomputer.com), and other services that use Outlook.com functional APIs such as calendaring are also affected, such as Microsoft Teams. They said in the current status section that they are applying targeted mitigation measures to the affected infrastructure and verifying that it has mitigated the impact. Traffic optimization work is also currently underway to mitigate user impact and speed up recovery.
Yesterday’s disconnection occurred following last week’s major event that affected Aruze and Microsoft 365 globally for up to 5 hours, and caused the shutdown of multiple services including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online and Outlook. Microsoft said in a report that this was caused by a router IP address change that caused problems with data forwarding between all routers in its WAN.
