Microsoft is looking into yet another widespread outage that is limiting access to some Microsoft 365 and Azure services. The tech giant acknowledged a global network infrastructure issue is impacting access to its Azure cloud platform.
“We’re currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple Microsoft 365 services and features. More information can be found under MO842351 in the admin center, “the company wrote on X.
Microsoft 365 users are reporting challenges connecting to the Microsoft 365 admin center and opening the Service Health Status page. The service health status page is meant to provide real-time information on issues impacting Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft 365/Power Platform admin centers.
The outage that is currently ongoing, is said to affect users across the globe. However, Microsoft says only a subset of its services are affected.
Microsoft confirmed that the outage has impacted the Microsoft 365 admin center, Intune, Entra, and Power Platform services. It also added that SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, and Exchange Online are not affected.
“Users who can access the impacted Microsoft 365 services may experience latency or degraded feature performance,” Microsoft explains on the service health status page.
The American tech giant is looking into the matter and has promised that its team is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. “We are investigating reports of issues connecting to Microsoft services globally. Customers may experience timeouts connecting to Azure services,” says the Azure status page.
The status report adds “We have multiple engineering teams engaged to diagnose and resolve the issue. More details will be provided as soon as possible.”
The widespread Microsoft Azure issue has caused interruptions to various services reliant on the platform. Among those affected is Cambridge Water in the UK, Minecraft, and PayNow.
Its less than a two weeks since another Azure outage affected services across the world. This was made worse by a Crowdstrike software error that affected only Microsoft devices.
