Microsoft services fully restored after global outage

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Microsoft has said that services have fully recovered across Teams, Outlook ⁠and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and…

Microsoft has said that services have fully recovered across Teams, Outlook ⁠and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and governments for over 24 hours.

"We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the company posted on X.

Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI assistant, and that it was not aware of any malicious activity, ruling out AI as the cause.

Outlook and Teams are two of the most widely used workplace applications with hundreds of millions of users.

The outage prevented people from performing essential functions such as sending emails, managing calendars and hosting virtual meetings.

Disruption was seen in Ireland and the UK from around 6pm on Thursday evening.

The HSE said Healthmail was impacted, which affects prescriptions and GPs and pharmacists were advised to use paper prescriptions under the GMS scheme.

It added that there were also intermittent problems with Microsoft video conferencing facilities, however, no services were impacted so far.

It affected government agencies from Australia and Japan to the United States, caused delays at trading firms, hindered some companies from publishing earnings and prompted airlines to warn customers of communication lags, according to public statements.

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