AustraliaBBCWhat we know about the global Microsoft outage
A major Microsoft outage hit Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 globally, affecting 140,000 users across 74 countries including Australian government agencies and GP surgeries.
Microsoft has said the outage was not caused by a cyber-security incident, but efforts to fix the issues have so far been largely unsuccessful.
A widespread Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 for users across 74 countries, including Australian government agencies and the country's spy agency.
Microsoft attributed the outage to elevated load after a large number of servers became unexpectedly unavailable, sending extra traffic to remaining servers and straining them.
Microsoft said it was seeing early signs of stabilisation on Friday morning but warned that service capacity had not yet returned to normal levels.
If you use Microsoft 365 for work or health services, Microsoft said it was seeing early signs of stabilisation but warned service capacity had not yet returned to normal.
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