Microsoft Faces Strong Disruption Affecting Many Regions Worldwide

Nov 12 (Jowhar)- Microsoft customers around the world reported a sudden service outage on Tuesday evening, as the company acknowledged widespread connectivity issues affecting “many regions.”

The major technology firm stated that it was working to resolve the issues, which were first flagged in the United States before Microsoft decided they could impact users in “every region.”

The UK page, the outage tracking site Downdetector showed a significant spike in reports of issues with Microsoft Teams around 6:15pm this evening.

Microsoft stated on X that “a portion of the infrastructure” was under “high load across many regions,” which the company believes is causing the connectivity issues.

The company said engineers had begun rerouting traffic from the global infrastructure to stabilize services.

A new report posted shortly after 7:10pm, Microsoft said: “We are actively exploring all avenues to mitigate the impact.

“We have halted all operations, we will reroute excess traffic from the affected infrastructure, and we will restart the impacted servers to restore service.”

Microsoft also directed users to its status page on its website for the latest information, but some users on X reported that the page itself was not loading.

According to Microsoft, they have warned of a “service disruption of Microsoft 365” and are displaying an error message stating: “Users may not be able to connect to many Microsoft 365 services.”