{"id":14926,"date":"2026-01-23T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:36:34","slug":"microsoft-365-hit-by-outage-preventing-access-to-emails-and-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14926","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The technology giant said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MSFT365Status\/status\/2014432216852340823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post on X<\/a> around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by a \u201cportion of service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as expected.\u201d Microsoft didn\u2019t provide specific details of the cause of the outage, but said it was \u201cworking to restore the infrastructure to a healthy state to achieve recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft said <a href=\"https:\/\/status.cloud.microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">on its status page<\/a> that the outage affects its Exchange Online email service, searching files within SharePoint Online or OneDrive, and creating chats, meetings, or adding members in its video meeting platform, Teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outage also prevents admins from accessing their Microsoft Purview and Defender XDR security dashboards and their admin centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ll reach out to Microsoft for comment \u2014 as soon as our email, which is hosted by Microsoft, returns to normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/22\/microsoft-365-hit-by-outage-preventing-access-to-emails-and-files\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing Microsoft outage is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[329,2235,10104,5217,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}