Microsoft 365 (Admin Center) incident

Microsoft Admin Center

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Microsoft 365 (Admin Center) experienced a minor incident on September 1, 2026, lasting 1h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 01, 2026, 01:54 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 01, 2026, 03:43 PM UTC
Duration
1h 49m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 01, 2026, 01:54 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 01:54 PM UTC

    More info: More info: Impact includes, but may not be limited to, the below services and scenarios. We will update this list as our understanding of the issue progresses. Microsoft 365 Copilot: - Users' Copilot prompts that require Microsoft 365 grounding, such as email content, may fail. OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online: - Users may be unable to load or refresh portions of OneDrive and SharePoint, including account and storage information, search results, Favorites, Followed and Shared With Me content, recent files, lists, and news. - Some users may also experience delayed or failed file opening, Office policy-label retrieval, OneDrive synchronization, mobile camera upload, and video playback. - Users may see partial page failures, missing or stale content, repeated retries, and operation timeouts rather than a complete platform outage. Exchange Online: - Users may be unable to connect to, or experience degraded functionality, such as failures when attempting to use the search function, within Exchange Online. All connection methods are affected. Outlook for iOS and Android: - Delays or failures when sending or receiving email messages via Outlook for iOS and Android. Microsoft Teams: - Users may experience issues with calendar functionality and search. Users’ presence may be stale and not update automatically or through manual adjustment. User location adjustment may fail. - Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) devices and desktop phones display as offline in the Teams admin center. Microsoft Purview: - Users may face intermittent authorization failures across solutions in Purview. Purview admins can’t access the portal. Additionally, in Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, users may see errors when loading Communication Compliance policies and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Communication Compliance policy creation and evaluation may be delayed. Microsoft Defender XDR: - Users may experience intermittent authorization failures across solutions in Defender. Microsoft 365 Admin Center: - Admins may experience issues authenticating into the admin center. Universal Print: - Users may be unable to create, upload, or retrieve print jobs. Current status: We're continuing to apply the targeted authentication component fix across the remaining affected infrastructure where necessary. Service telemetry continues to indicate recovery, with availability increasing across previously impacted scenarios as remediation progresses. We're validating that authentication, connectivity and search operations are returning to expected service levels while monitoring for any residual impact and confirming that the remediation is delivering broad mitigation across affected Exchange Online scenarios. As recovery signals continue to trend positively, we're maintaining extended monitoring across affected service workflows to ensure improvements are sustained. Scope of impact: Users attempting to perform any of the outlined impact scenarios may be affected by this event. Root cause: An issue within a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services is resulting in impact. Next update by: Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 4:00 PM UTC