Commvault incident
Exchange Online Backup Failures (Forbidden Errors)
Commvault is currently experiencing a notice incident, which began 3h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- identified Jun 22, 2026, 12:38 PM UTC
Description: 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