Microsoft incident · via Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise)
Admins intermittently may have been unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center
Microsoft experienced a minor incident on October 5, 2026, lasting 4h 51m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- monitoring Oct 05, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC
Current status: We're investigating a potential issue impacting admin access to the Microsoft 365 admin portal in certain regions and we're checking for impact to your organization. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes.
- monitoring Oct 05, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC
User impact: Admins intermittently may be unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center. Current status: We’re investigating an unusually large increase in requests to the Microsoft 365 admin center and expect that this increase is resulting in requests queuing and timing-out. We’re reviewing options for mitigating this issue and determining if other factors are contributing to the problem. Scope of impact: Admins attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center may be intermittently affected. Next update by: Wednesday, October 6, at 12:30 AM UTC
- monitoring Oct 06, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC
User impact: Admins intermittently may be unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center. Current status: We're continuing to analyze the unusually large increase in requests to the Microsoft 365 admin center along with recent service updates to isolate potential sources of impact that contributed to the traffic increase. We’ve implemented performance optimizations to assist with processing affected traffic and we've validated that service availability has recovered to pre-impact levels. We're continuing our investigation in order to isolate and remediate the underlying root cause to ensure the similar scenario does not occur again in the future. Scope of impact: Admins attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center may be intermittently affected. This section may be updated as the investigation progresses. Start time: Monday, October 5, 2026, at 10:28 PM UTC Next update by: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 1:30 AM UTC
- monitoring Oct 06, 2026, 01:26 AM UTC
User impact: Admins intermittently may have been unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center. Final status: We've validated that an unexpected influx in requests caused performance degradation and failures for admins attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center. We've implemented additional performance optimizations to assist with processing affected traffic. After completing an internal monitoring period, we've validated that impact is remediated. Scope of impact: Admins attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center may have been intermittently affected. Start time: Monday, October 5, 2026, at 10:28 PM UTC End time: Monday, October 5, 2026, at 11:37 PM UTC Root cause: An unexpected influx in requests and caused performance degradation and failures for admins attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center. Next steps: - We're evaluating what additional performance optimizations or safeguards we can implement to further the resiliency of our service. This is the final update for the event.