Microsoft 365 Recovers After Widespread Outage

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10 Oct 2025

If you’re one of the 17,000 users that had been grappling with Microsoft 365 outages, there’s great news for you.

On Thursday, Microsoft confirmed that a disruption affecting its Microsoft 365 productivity suite has been resolved, per Reuters.

The company traced the issue to a misconfiguration in part of its network infrastructure in North America. Earlier, users had reported difficulties accessing Teams and Exchange Online.

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At the height of the incident, Downdetector — which aggregates user reports of service outages — logged as many as 17,000 reports. By 5:38 p.m. ET, that number had dropped to just 136 reports.


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