Microsoft 365, Outlook and Microsoft Teams are down

What you need to know

• Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft Store are currently unavailable for many.
• The number of outage reports began increasing around 8 a.m. ET and increased dramatically by 12 p.m. ET.
• Microsoft has identified the issue that caused the outage and is rolling out a fix, but many are still unable to access Microsoft services as of 12:40 p.m. ET.
• Delays resulted in the issue taking longer to resolve than expected, but outage reports decreased.

Microsoft 365, Outlook and Microsoft Teams users were in for a rude awakening at the beginning of the week. These services are all at the top of the charts at DownDetector. The Company reports service outages by collecting user reports. The outages began around 8 a.m. ET today but peaked around midday.

Some reports of problems occurred earlier in the day around 4 a.m. ET, which is around the time Microsoft began investigating the issue, but as of around 8 a.m. ET, the issues appear to have caused more problems. There’s a good chance the increase in outage reports is related to people logging in for work at the start of the week.