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MicrosoftâÂÂs Outlook email hit by new outage
Microsoft said its Outlook email service is currently experiencing an outage, preventing users from accessing their inboxes.
The issue was initially flagged as affecting the U.S. and the Americas, and later expanded to affect âÂÂany region.âÂÂ
Microsoft hasnâÂÂt given a specific cause, but said that it was providing updates in its admin center, which wasnâÂÂt reachable at the time of publication. In a post on X for users who canâÂÂt access the admin center, Microsoft said some of its infrastructure was experiencing âÂÂelevated load,â and that it was âÂÂredistributing connection traffic across our broader worldwide infrastructure to help balance the load.âÂÂ
The companyâÂÂs last major incident was in September, when a days-long outage hit Microsoft 365, its online productivity suite that includes Outlook. During that outage, Microsoft blamed a âÂÂcore authentication configurationâ issue that prevented users from accessing the service.
ItâÂÂs unclear to what extent the outage extends to other services. TechCrunch will reach out to Microsoft for comment, as soon as our email service has resumed.
