Commvault incident
Exchange Online Backup Failures (Forbidden Errors)
Commvault is currently experiencing a notice incident affecting East US2 and France Central and 1 more component, which began 77d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
East US2France CentralCanada Central
Update timeline
- identified Apr 01, 2026, 04:50 PM UTC
We are tracking reports of "Forbidden" errors during Office 365 backups caused by a recent Microsoft Exchange Online behavior change. This affects specific tenants and mailboxes using EWS. Exchange Online jobs may show User Mailboxes reporting a Mailbox Status of: Throttling from Exchange, Failed to process mailbox due to [The request failed. Forbidden] Resolution: Additional information and steps to resolve this can be found here, https://support.commvault.com/Article/Details/KA-191556