Major Impacts of Massive Worldwide Microsoft Outage

Microsoft Teams

The outage started as a minor issue with Microsoft Teams but quickly expanded. Users were unable to connect to the Microsoft Teams Desktop, Web, and Mobile clients.

Exchange Online

Users experienced delays in sending mail due to the outage, affecting email communication for businesses and individuals globally

Microsoft 365 Admin Center

There was an inability to access the admin center, which hindered administrators from managing their organization's Microsoft 365 environment

Microsoft Word and Office Online

Users faced issues with loading Microsoft Word within multiple services and experienced access issues with Office Online. This disrupted document creation and editing processes

Microsoft Forms

The inability to use Forms via Teams affected surveys, quizzes, and data collection processes

Microsoft Graph API

Any service relying on this API, which includes a wide range of applications, was potentially affected by the outage

SharePoint Online

Users had trouble accessing Microsoft Word documents through SharePoint Online, impacting collaboration and document management

Project Online

Access to Project Online was disrupted, affecting project management and planning activities

PowerPlatform and PowerAutomate

There were issues with creating environments with databases, affecting automation and data processing tasks

Yammer and Windows 365

The outage impacted Yammer flighting and the provisioning of Cloud PCs in Windows 365