New Delhi, November 13, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Microsoft services, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365, faced a widespread global outage on Friday, leaving thousands of users across several countries, including India, unable to access the company’s platforms.
The disruption triggered more than one lakh reports of problems with Outlook on outage-tracking website Downdetector, highlighting the scale of the service interruption.
The outage also affected connectors used by artificial intelligence services operated by OpenAI and Anthropic, extending the disruption beyond Microsoft’s own platforms.
Microsoft said it was pursuing multiple measures to minimise the impact. In its latest update, the company attributed the incident to “a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable”, without specifying the reason behind the server failures.
The company said some of its infrastructure was experiencing elevated load and that it was redistributing connection traffic across its wider global network to balance demand.
Microsoft has paused deployments, shifted additional traffic away from the affected infrastructure and begun restarting impacted servers to restore services. Its Defender XDR security system was also reported to be affected.
The company said its technical teams were continuing to investigate the disruption and would provide updates through its admin centre. It also issued updates on X for users unable to access that platform.
Earlier on Friday, Microsoft had reported resolving a separate Teams disruption affecting users in North America. However, the company subsequently warned that the issue could also affect Microsoft 365 connectivity in other regions.
The latest disruption follows a major Microsoft 365 outage in September, which lasted several days. At the time, the company blamed a problem with its core authentication configuration that prevented users from accessing services.
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