Microsoft Outlook is down — what you need to know

Microsoft Outlook is downward — what you need to know

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Microsoft's Outlook electronic mail service for the web, desktop, mobile, and Outlook.com has been suffering outages worldwide, with users still being affected at the time of writing.

While we've not experienced any problems on our cease at Tom's Guide, there are numerous reports of Outlook outages in upshot. And checking on the DownDetector website, which tracks internet service outages, information technology appears that there are still problems with Outlook.

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Microsoft'due south own support folio for Outlook notes the service is "having bug" and that some users may be unable to access their email. At a time when a lot of people are working from home, such an outage is probable to exist more impactful than always.

And it appears Microsoft itself is the culprit backside the outage as information technology made a change on the company's side that has messed with Outlook.

"Further analysis has determined that the consequence is being caused by a recent configuration update to components that road user requests," Microsoft said. "Nosotros've reverted the update and telemetry shows that the service is at present recovering."

So Microsoft is well enlightened of the outage and is working to get it fixed as soon as possible. There'southward a good chance you might not take encountered the outage, especially if you're on the West Declension of the U.South. as the outage happened at ii a.k. PT, which is when we'd look a big number of users to be comatose.

"Our engineers are addressing an issue that afflicted some Microsoft 365 services," a Microsoft spokesperson told The Verge. "Services are starting to improve every bit a result of the measures we have implemented."

If you've encountered bug with getting access to Outlook today, then nosotros're agape you'll simply accept to sit down tight and expect for Microsoft to fix the trouble. Such outages tend not to final too long, specially given the size of Microsoft's engineering workforce as well as the huge attain of its cloud infrastructure.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.Grand. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he's also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be found wandering around London, often with a look of marvel on his face up.