Microsoft restores global Microsoft 365 services after more than 24-hour outage
Microsoft announced that the worldwide outage affecting Microsoft 365 applications, which lasted over a day, has been resolved and services are back online.
Microsoft said on Saturday that the global outage that disrupted its Microsoft 365 suite for businesses and governments has been resolved. The company posted on X that it had "completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions."
The outage, which began around 17:25 UTC on Thursday, affected applications such as Teams, Outlook and Copilot, preventing email transmission and online meetings. Microsoft indicated that it was not aware of any external interference and attributed the problem to server issues.
Government agencies and private firms worldwide reported difficulties. A spokesperson for Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization noted that while federal operations were largely unaffected, many German businesses experienced significant disruption. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service reported reliance on paper records during the incident.
Downdetector recorded more than 7.4 million problem reports globally. The event underscores the extensive dependence of public and private sectors on a limited set of large technology providers.