Microsoft investigating as Teams and Outlook down for thousands of users worldwide

Microsoft is investigating after Teams and Outlook went down for thousands of users around the world.

The service status monitoring website Downdetector recorded thousands of users reporting problems with Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBox Live on Wednesday morning.

The site had detected 4,132 incidents of people complaining of outages on Outlook in the UK as of 7.54am on Wednesday.

Meanwhile 1,971 Microsoft Teams issues had been reported by just after 8.10am.

Microsoft 365 Status, an account showing updates on Microsoft 365 service incidents, tweeted: “We’re investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services.”

It later added: “We’ve isolated the problem to a networking configuration issue, and we are analysing the best mitigation strategy to address it without causing additional impact.

“We’ll provide more information once we have additional information.”

Microsoft said “impact is occurring” to services including: Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Outlook, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Graph, Power BI and Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

The tech giant said on Wednesday afternoon that the issues have been resolved for some users.

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