If you aren't able to use any Microsoft service currently, don't worry, you aren't alone. Major Microsoft platforms and services like Outlook, Teams, Copilot, OneDrive, and Azure, are all down right now.
There are currently tens of thousands of user outage reports on DownDetector starting at just after 1pm and peaking at 1:45pm ET. It's unclear what's causing the outage, but at least one Microsoft division seems aware of the problem, based on a recent post from its official Microsoft 365 status Twitter account.
Microsoft's Service Health Status page indicates that Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, Copilot 365 and Microsoft Defender XDR are all down right now. It includes the following statement:
We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we've paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We've determined that the elevated load isn't driven by an overall increase in traffic, but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, which is shifting load onto the remaining infrastructure. We're investigating what's causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service.
Given how widespread the outage seems, services are unlikely to be restored quickly. With that in mind, it would be smart to prepare for an outage that lasts at least a few hours.
This story will be updated when more information becomes available. XDA has reached out to Microsoft for more information about the ongoing outage.
