Ongoing since 06:50 PM UTC, affecting Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams North America) and 1 more.
Microsoft's own status page has been down until now. Here is what it says https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/referrer=serviceStatusRedirect Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise) Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Potentially impacted services include: - Exchange Online - Microsoft Teams - SharePoint Online - Microsoft Copilot 365 - Microsoft Defender XDR Current status: We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we've paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We've also moved traffic for some services off the affected infrastructure to further reduce load, with additional traffic moves in progress. Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services. Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 9:00 PM UTC
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Nov 12, 2026, 06:50 PM UTC
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2026/11/12/microsoft-down-outlook-365-outage-reports/92744582007/ Microsoft products, including Outlook email services and CoPilot, were down for thousands of people on the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 12. Outage tracker Downdetector reflected a spike in reports about Microsoft 365 services beginning just after 12 p.m. ET, with 22,323 users reporting outages by 12:55 p.m. ET. Outlook had just shy of 83,000 reported outages just before 1 p.m. ET, while 2,000 reported issues with Teams and 4,400 reported disturbances to CoPilot around the same time. Microsoft posted about "issues when accessing or using Microsoft Teams functionality in North America" on its official X account at 10:40 a.m. ET, but said in the same thread that they were resolved around noon. A more recent post from just before 1 p.m. ET said, "We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas."
- investigating Nov 12, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC
Microsoft's own status page has been down until now. Here is what it says https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/referrer=serviceStatusRedirect Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise) Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Potentially impacted services include: - Exchange Online - Microsoft Teams - SharePoint Online - Microsoft Copilot 365 - Microsoft Defender XDR Current status: We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we've paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We've also moved traffic for some services off the affected infrastructure to further reduce load, with additional traffic moves in progress. Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services. Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 9:00 PM UTC
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