Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Teams, Outlook worldwide
A coordinated set of outages hit Microsoft services, with Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Office 365, and Xbox Live all affected across multiple reports, prompting Microsoft to acknowledge issues and begin investigations. Downdetector data and user reports showed a sharp spike in outages around the morning hours, with Microsoft flagging targeted network paths and diagnostic data as the focus for mitigation. Microsoft issued incident MO1437424 on its admin center and advised administrators to monitor the Microsoft 365 Service Health Status for updates as service degradation persisted. The disruptions appeared widespread but varied by service, and Microsoft noted improvements in some areas while indicating that a full resolution was still in progress. Context for the outages includes prior incidents and ongoing corporate restructuring within Microsoft’s Xbox division, which has been highlighted in coverage of the July 23 event. As the situation develops, officials emphasized that updates would be shared through the official status pages and incident IDs to keep users informed.
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“Microsoft 365 outage affects Teams, SharePoint and other services”Bleeping Computer · Jul 23, 2026
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