A major outage at Microsoft is hitting businesses and large organisations worldwide, including Northern Ireland.
The tech giant is scrambling to find ways to restore services after an outage has left users worldwide without access to emails and Microsoft Teams as it initially admitted that attempted fixes were not going “as expected”. It has since issued more positive updates.
The IT failure has affected Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot. More than 120,000 reports of problems with Outlook were registered on the tracking website Downdetector in the United States overnight, and Australians found they were unable to access their emails when they started work on Friday morning.
The IT failure is the third such incident for Microsoft this year. In January, Outlook, Teams and calendar services were disrupted for several hours. There were then issues in August with signing in to Microsoft 365 and syncing Outlook emails.