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Offline servers disrupt Outlook and Teams, ABC reports

Microsoft was restarting parts of its infrastructure as a global outage interrupted access to workplace services.

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Australians starting their workday faced trouble getting into their inboxes as a global Microsoft outage affected Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services, ABC News reports.

Reporting from Sydney on News Breakfast, Julia André said the disruption began before six in the morning, Australian eastern daylight time. Microsoft was investigating problems accessing online mailboxes through apps and desktop browsers.

The explanation shifted as the investigation progressed. André reported that Microsoft initially suspected increased traffic, then determined that several servers had gone offline, putting extra pressure on those still running. The company was restarting parts of its infrastructure, but disruption continued at the time of the broadcast.

The report's on-screen service notice extended beyond email and meetings, listing SharePoint Online, Microsoft Copilot 365 and Microsoft Defender XDR among the affected products.

ABC's short update drew about 125,000 views in seven hours, an unusually fast start compared with the channel's usual Shorts.

In a follow-up, ABC's national AI reporter Cam Wilson widened the question beyond getting services running again: he said the outage exposed the risks of essential and government services relying deeply on a single, centralised provider.

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