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91 points nazgulsenpai 34 minutes ago 27 comments

For the past 5 minutes all of our Microsoft Cloud connections are down. Anyone else? The Status page won't even load.

testplzignore 32 minutes ago | parent

https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/2120938282204688468

> We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas. More details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX1550543.

EvanAnderson 32 minutes ago | parent

https://status.cloud.microsoft/ is very slow to load.

The page is showing a "Service Degredation" for "Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise)"

Updates below in reverse chronological order:

From the Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:32:25 PM UTC update:

Title: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services

User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services.

More info: Potentially impacted services include:

- Exchange Online

- Microsoft Teams

- SharePoint Online

- Microsoft Copilot 365

- Microsoft Defender XDR

Current status: We’re investigating an issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services and we've determined the affected infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors. We're restarting and repairing impacted portions of this infrastructure to restore capacity, and reviewing an unexpected increase in a specific type of service traffic to determine whether it's contributing to the elevated load. In parallel, we're evaluating options to redirect traffic to alternate infrastructure to expedite relief.

Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services.

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From the Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:10:02 PM UTC update:

User impact: Users may be unable to connect to their mailboxes in Exchange Online through multiple connection methods.

More info: Potentially impacted connection methods may include:

- Outlook on the web

- Messaging API (MAPI)

- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS)

- Representational State Transfer (REST) API

Current status: We’ve identified connectivity errors occurring on a portion of Exchange Online infrastructure which receives and processes users’ access requests. We’ve collected networking logs to review to further investigate the source of these errors and confirm our next steps.

Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access their mailbox in Exchange Online using the affected connection methods.

Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 8:00 PM UTC

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Aside: What with the nature of the Teams, OneDrive, etc, products being Sharepoint and Exchange in a trenchcoat this is probably creating quite a mess for services besides Exchange Online, too.

Edit: Looks like the status page needs a status page.

Edit: Verified w/ multiple other parties that Teams and OneDrive are having issues, too. Interestingly, Microsoft 365 Family services are working fine. That makes me wonder if that product is running on separate infrastructure (or just hasn't caught fire yet).

vachina 27 minutes ago | parent

502 The service behind this page isn't responding to Azure Front Door.

nazgulsenpai 25 minutes ago | parent

I was assured that with cloud we wouldn't have a single point of failure like we did on-premise. I must have fallen asleep at my desk.

moronicles 6 minutes ago | parent

That was never the promise. The nearest to that is the promise of multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure, but neither of those have anything to do with outages of specific Microsoft services.

neilsimp1 32 minutes ago | parent

Down for our whole organization as well.

Aboutplants 28 minutes ago | parent

Same here

Waterluvian 31 minutes ago | parent

The M365 status page not loading reminds me of one of my favourite Simpsons jokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hz2uOSdV24

lajy 31 minutes ago | parent

https://downdetector.com/

Aboutplants 29 minutes ago | parent

A whole host of services are being effected. First glance, perhaps an AWS issue

toomuchtodo 29 minutes ago | parent

Seeing multiple O365 tenants down hard, email, Teams, etc.

duxup 27 minutes ago | parent

Same for me. Status won’t load even.

bix6 24 minutes ago | parent

Down

LtdJorge 24 minutes ago | parent

Our Outlook doesn't work either

sonicrocketman 21 minutes ago | parent

Downdetector says LOTS of stuff is down. https://downdetector.com

SomeonesAccount 19 minutes ago | parent

Damn. That is crazy. The curve kinda looks like the curve that happens every november to the Google searches of "all I want for christmas is you"

Icathian 15 minutes ago | parent

Downdetector's methodology is pretty garbage. I'm always surprised to see techies referencing them.

sonicrocketman 14 minutes ago | parent

It's something to reference. My view is that it's better than "doesn't load for me".

NichoPaolucci 18 minutes ago | parent

Isn't this the company that is trying to get rid of 25% of their employees?

Status page is down. Much of our org is halted.

Fingers crossed that Azure isn't impacted (seems fine so far)

(https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-makes-new-voluntary-...)

eightysixfour 11 minutes ago | parent

> Isn't this the company that is trying to get rid of 25% of their employees?

Just clarifying this in general, when a company makes a voluntary offer to some segment of employees, especially at this size, it is a statistics game of how many people accept the buy out.

They did not make the offer to 25% of the employees to downsize by 25%, they did it to downsize by 5% (or something like that), and then made the offer based on how many they expect to accept. This is specifically covered in this line of the geekwire article:

> Microsoft didn’t provide a projection for how many employees will accept, but the company told GeekWire it anticipates a much smaller share than the roughly 30% who took its earlier voluntary retirement offer, which went to longtime employees more likely to take the deal.

They probably expect 10-20% of those offered to take it, which would result in a 2.5-5% total downsizing.

dbvn 12 minutes ago | parent

who puts their status page on servers the status is supposed to be for?

nazgulsenpai 11 minutes ago | parent

> Current status: We’re investigating an issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services and we've determined the affected infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors. We're restarting and repairing impacted portions of this infrastructure to restore capacity, and reviewing an unexpected increase in a specific type of service traffic to determine whether it's contributing to the elevated load. In parallel, we're evaluating options to redirect traffic to alternate infrastructure to expedite relief.

DDOS?

iAMkenough 2 minutes ago | parent

Too many AI agents connecting at once?

matt3210 10 minutes ago | parent

Software / software service quality has been declining for a few years IMO.

worik 3 minutes ago | parent

Coincidentally with massive programmer layoffs?

ocdtrekkie 2 minutes ago | parent

This usually isn't a software quality issue, it's overcomplicated infrastructure failures cascading through a complex environment causing additional systems to fall over.

corvad 7 minutes ago | parent

Not sure they got the memo to host the status page in separate infrastructure...