Microsoft Outlook is down
Microsoft 365 issues are cutting people off from their email right now.
by Richard Lawler
Nov 12, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC
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Over the last hour or so, reports have come in from around the world that people can’t access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that “We’ve determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors.”
There were also some reports of problems with Teams, but most of the people reporting issues say Teams is still working now.
We’ve completed redistributing connection traffic across our worldwide infrastructure, and we’re moving additional traffic off...
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