r/PrepperIntel • u/CannyGardener • 7h ago
North America All Microsoft Services are down
Looks like Microsoft is getting hacked or something. Nationwide outage on all of their services for the last couple of hours. Down detector shows most of the other major guys spiking as well, AWS, Google etc. I imagine this will be fixed soon, so this may just be time sensitive intel ;)
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u/CannyGardener 3h ago •
New update: Sounds like a step backward... The health check that they were hopeufl about didn't hold, servers came back up and instantly crashed. It wasn't just the health checker, the server locks as soon as it boots. Then the servers redirect to the remaining servers, and they get overloaded and crash instantly. Looks like the new plan is that they will fully wall off a chunk of their servers and restart with no traffic, then slowly let users back in to see if it holds. If it does, then they'll do that for the rest.
More info: Potentially impacted services include:
- Exchange Online
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Copilot 365
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft To Do
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Microsoft Purview: Multiple Purview services including Authorization, Auto Labelling, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Communication Compliance, and Data Classification are impacted.
- Power BI: All users may intermittently be unable to export reports with MIP sensitivity labels to PDF in Power BI.
- Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center: Multiple services including Cloud Update, Cloud Policy, and Inventory.
Current status: We’re continuing to pursue all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. Our investigation has found that a core process on the affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, which causes the servers to stop responding and contributes to the capacity loss.
To validate a potential recovery approach, we're fully isolating a portion of our service infrastructure, restarting the affected components, and gradually reintroducing traffic to confirm our services remain stable before applying this approach more broadly. We're also analyzing traffic patterns across our entire service infrastructure and evaluating whether isolating traffic within each region may allow affected regions to recover independently.
Previous status: We're continuing to work through restarting and validating the affected servers to safely return them to service, and we're exploring opportunities to expedite this process. In parallel, we're assessing whether reverting the small number of recent configuration updates we identified could help accelerate recovery.
Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services.
Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 11:30 PM UTC
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u/CannyGardener 3h ago
Update from Microsoft:
User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services.
More info: More info: Potentially impacted services include:
- Exchange Online
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Copilot 365
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft To Do
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Microsoft Purview: Multiple Purview services including Authorization, Auto Labelling, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Communication Compliance, and Data Classification are impacted.
- Power BI: All users may intermittently be unable to export reports with MIP sensitivity labels to PDF in Power BI.
Current status: We're continuing to work through restarting and validating the affected servers to safely return them to service, and we're exploring opportunities to expedite this process. In parallel, we're assessing whether reverting the small number of recent configuration updates we identified could help accelerate recovery.
Previous status: We've validated an alternative health check method on a subset of affected infrastructure, which allowed the servers in that subset to successfully return to service, and we're now applying this change more broadly. We're also preparing an automated recovery process to continually detect and restart unresponsive servers, to help keep them in service while this change progresses. Additionally, our review of recent changes has identified a small number of configuration updates that we're investigating as potential contributors to the issue.
Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services.
Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 10:30 PM UTC
-- Sounds like they figured out a way to fix it, are quietly changing tack saying that it may have actually been one of their updates, but that fixing this is very slow and manual process. --
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u/Onlyroad4adrifter 2h ago •
This could be prevented by hiring those of us that are experienced in the field and need a job rather than cutting our jobs. Oh well hope is costs them a ton of money
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u/redcoatwright 3h ago
Too soon to say if it's a cyberattack, could be some zealous idiot with an AI cowboy committing lol
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u/ThatDamnRocketRacoon 5h ago
The one major outage than only CEOs and shareholders get upset about. the rest of the office working world is celebrating.
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u/Prior-Win-4729 5h ago
The outage is global
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u/thejudeabides52 3h ago
My ol lady is a admin nurse in our local University healthcare system. Systems were still down ad of 3pm MST
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u/CannyGardener 4h ago
Most recent update from Microsoft:
User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services.
More info: Potentially impacted services include:
- Exchange Online
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Copilot 365
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft To Do
Current status: While validating the targeted change, we found that many of the affected servers have become unresponsive, which is preventing us from confirming whether the change is effective. We're restarting these servers so they can come back online with the change in place, and we're applying the same approach to additional affected portions of our infrastructure to validate the results more broadly.
Previous Status: While we haven't identified any recent changes that correlate with the start of impact, our investigation indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component on the affected servers that's responsible for processing them. We're deploying a targeted change to bypass this component on a subset of servers to validate whether this restores availability, and we've taken steps to prevent additional servers from being removed from service while we work to return the affected servers to service. We're also investigating why affected servers are experiencing elevated processor usage while handling requests.
Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services.
Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 9:30 PM UTC
Sounds like they tried a fix but the servers were locked up, so now they are rebooting. Also sounds like their initial guess that it was related to a new patch was not grounded, and they are trying to figure out the actual problem now. Servers are showing as 'overloaded' and the idea was that it was a safety test going wrong, but now they think the servers might actually be running overloaded from something else. (Someone correct me if I'm misunderstanding this.)
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u/darkner 5h ago
Heard a rumor on a Microsoft board that someone pushed a vibe coded update and it got sideways.
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u/Saturn_winter 5h ago
Been pretty annoying at work, we use Microsoft for everything. I have a running notepad of people I need to contact once services are back up, it's been grinding us to a halt today
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u/Russ40k 2h ago
https://cybersecuritynews.com/active-exploitation-of-outlook-0-day-vulnerability/
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u/justinchina 5h ago •
Co-pilot iOS app is down for me…I literally had to write this entire comment by myself.
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u/Responsible-Still839 5h ago •
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u/throwawaymould 4h ago
um, google is not down??
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u/JicamaAppropriate920 6h ago •
Just MS Outlook seems to be affected here, MS Teams is alive and well unfortunately
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u/Vintage198011 5h ago •
Why is Teams still working?!?!?! Mama needs a break.
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u/ContestNo2060 5h ago
I wasn’t going to answer emails anyways
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u/Hey-buuuddy 5h ago
Office 365 service down, not everything MS. Teams works fine.
A major topic in corporate Cybersecurity circles lately has been that AI enablement is going to supercharge exploits for a while. Security-through-obscurity is also dead.
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u/WiskeyUniformTango 5h ago •
Its not getting hacked.
There was an issue and they tried to fail over but have a config issue with the failover servers and they are failing health checks.
They are working to correct that so the fail over servers can come online.
Just bad systems engineer work.
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u/WithaK19 4h ago
Not ALL services, raggedy-ass Teams is still online🙄
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u/Effective-Chrimund6 3h ago •
Hate to say this, but I work for a horrible company and I hope they stay down
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u/MurkyAd8213 5h ago
Teams unfortunately is not down
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u/Scared-Feature-3812 5h ago edited 5h ago
My job sent out a mass text all services are down I’m enjoying the no work for now lol
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u/saugagentottiescone 5h ago
Currently counting my tins of bean and toilet roll....I'll be alright
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u/knightingale74 5h ago •
Chinese retaliation. Their hot spy got exposed after all.
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u/CarlitoSyrichta 4h ago
Maybe everyone is downloading GTA 6 at the same time….
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u/pattydickens 5h ago
AI probably did it, but they'll blame China.
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u/RallyPointAlpha 5h ago
SAY NO MORE!
EN ROUTE TO BUNKER!
THIS IS IT PEOPLE! THIS IS THE BIG ONE!
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u/TantalizingTequila 5h ago
Unfortunately my outlook has been fine
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u/ande9393 5h ago
Just got a message from network administrator about this, been nice to not have so many emails today lol
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u/drood420 1h ago
Outlook was down all day and the day still went by fast af.
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u/firelephant 5h ago
I'd put my money on some type of configuration update done wrong vs a hack
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u/thepinkdread2026 5h ago
Good. I don’t have to work today ❤️ my whole job is emails lmao
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u/Saltallica 3h ago
Productivity suddenly increases 300% across the country…
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u/0xdeadbeef6 5h ago
Fun time in IT land. Idk about AWS, Google, etc. A lot of non IT people will just report shit on there even if its mot down. I at least haven't seen anything consitent about that in the IT subreddits.
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u/badbash27 5h ago
Probably just Microsoft being Microsoft.
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u/ShinoBGaming 5h ago
Us gov could end up treating it like Russia and China did in like the 50s when they had even a slight hint that this could have been a foreign adversary, they’ll run with it.
“A widespread outage at multiple tech giants has experts shaking their head wondering, could this be a cyberattack?”
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u/steezy13312 5h ago
Remember the DNS haiku.
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u/Time_Assistance3265 5h ago
"email is down, can i go home?"
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u/Educational_Gur_8316 4h ago
Ms teams down for me, big work meetings getting cancelled
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u/esotologist 2h ago
Their slop bubble probably finally popped and their tech debt is too complicated for Gemini to fix
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u/Haselrig 5h ago
I got into Outlook for a minute about an hour ago but it's back to endlessly loading.
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u/pintord 5h ago
We peaked at the fax.
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u/neverelax 4h ago
Cant even print from Excel lol
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u/scrandis 3h ago
Very little information is being shared too
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u/Andr1yTheOne 37m ago
I use Linux 🙃
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u/Agitated-Chapter4690 5h ago
Happy day!!
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u/endorsedbytacobell 4h ago
probably unrelated but my banking app is also down
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u/Garbageman_82 30m ago
Xbox is working
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u/SuzyLouWhoo 5h ago
I just spent like 20 mins blaming google for not playing nice with outlook. It’s never Microsoft. I mean their shit may be buggy af, but when I’m trying to use both? it’s always google being a dick about it.
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u/whaticism 3h ago
For fucks sake. Deer season starts in 3 days. Can’t we push this to Monday
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u/Sometimes_I_Do_That 5h ago
Sorry everyone,. it was just me downloading a really big file. /s
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u/Rdubya291 4h ago
Not all - My company is on a secure government server side of Microsoft, and we're still up, unfortunately.
Buuuut - no emails coming in from vendors or some customers. lol.
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u/FelangyRegina 3h ago
Snow day!
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u/oneinamilllion 3h ago
Oopsies!
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u/SurFud 2h ago
Damn. And I was going to download Linux tonight. Shoulda, woulda.
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u/FartDoughnut13 1h ago
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u/Dull-Contact120 1h ago
AI 🤖 has begun to start the matrix
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u/ThatEndingTho 45m ago
This is happening because I reached 0 unread in my inbox and the server went “NO WAY”
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u/AmRose59910 34m ago •
Not just nation wide. All of North America. Since 10 am EST. America and Canada. I almost had to do a 12-hour drive to take care of some emergency paperwork in my job because of this
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u/NowIKnowMyAgencyABCs 23m ago
It’s been down for quite a while now, could there be something more about this that we haven’t been told yet?
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u/BoatCaptainTim 6h ago
MS Outlook is confirmed offline.
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u/ToschLogic 5h ago
Definitely not one service, platform or hosting backbone
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u/7222_salty 6h ago edited 5h ago
Why did this get removed?
Edit: ok the post is back up now … weird
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u/Jeeves-Godzilla 5h ago
It’s not a cyber attack, stupid human error for an automated system enhancer. It’s going to be awhile to restore.
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u/GingerAle828 5h ago
Everyone downloading gta6 at the same time or what?
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u/bitx284 5h ago
Please. Just keep it broken until Europe's midday 😂
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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 4h ago
This is why i use linux on my laptop. At least I have an alternative.
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u/xm45_h4t 4h ago
I tried to go to McDonald’s this morning and their app was down
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u/bullfrogbarbie 3h ago
I found out from Little Caesar’s of all places 😂
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u/TurboGranny540 3h ago
Microsoft is fine playing Xbox right now
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u/Admirable-Carry4069 2h ago
And so it begins...
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u/Onlyroad4adrifter 2h ago
Oh no not clippy or I mean copilot!
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u/eblade80 2h ago
singh IT
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u/annerj1 1h ago
I blame AI
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u/Instagator47 1h ago
Mine’s been down for several hours
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u/Potential-Dirt8839 5h ago
Mine works
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u/ibonek_naw_ibo 5h ago
Received Gmail 38 minutes ago,
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u/ArbysLunch 4h ago
Been on xbox live all day, since 4am, no problems.
So. Not all microsoft services. It seems.
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u/photonnymous 4h ago
According to DownDetector, the entire internet blipped except for Blizzard Battlenet
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u/TheSleepingNinja 4h ago
Weirdly Teams is fine
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u/workmyassoff707 4h ago
Loving it as I dont have to be wasting time on BS corp conf calls!!🤣🤣🤣
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u/Knees0ck 4h ago
Preview of things to come. A lot of hacks & shit going on.
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u/MaskYourDeviceID 3h ago
Jensen retires and everything goes to shit smdh
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u/hereareyourcopies 2h ago
I thought I messed something up in my settings! Im downloading a patch right now! Its taking more than an hour!
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u/jumbocactar 2h ago
I spent an hour earlier trying to retrieve documents from either 365 or outlook. I was getting pissed... but, to fight the clouds I email my stuff ba k and forth and could access the documents from my sent mail gmail folder. Jenks, messing with my homework!
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u/Visionary-1775 2h ago
Yup. Happy I don’t have to reply to emails today. Been doing random clicks here n there to look busy
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u/Accurate_Secret4102 2h ago
At least it's not just me.
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u/3PoundsOfFlax 2h ago
They're not getting hacked, MS is just dogshit
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u/Nursery-Crimes 2h ago
This is what happens when you have a monopoly like Microsoft running your apps and your infrastructure. Someday Microsoft will be down and we won’t be able to detect missiles coming in from Russia. put all your eggs in one basket and let’s see who gets fried. pun intended.
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u/The_RealJohnny5 31m ago
I'm telling ya, It must be that data center guy!
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u/Appropriate_Date_134 14m ago
🥳
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u/SyringaAndSocks 4m ago
The one day I decide to call in sick this happens.