Global Microsoft Outage
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Published 13 Nov 2026 in Colleagues
As you may have seen in the news there is a global Microsoft outage impacting on-line access to services such as, but not limited to:
- Exchange Online (Outlook)
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Copilot 365
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft To Do
Reporting via Power BI is directly impacted also - this will mean our usual reporting tools will not work until Microsoft has resolved this issue.
This outage may also cause disruption to other Microsoft services as they work to resolve the issue.
It is currently impacting 72 countries and millions of users globally, our teams will continue to monitor the situation and will provide updates as we receive them.
If you are responsible for a team / colleague who use services accessed only via web tools / online, please cascade this message. While we will be sharing updates via all channels available, and we have put a response on the service desk phone system, there may be users particularly in the funeral business who rely on web apps for their email etc.
BBC news article can be found here: Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'as expected'