Major disruption: Microsoft fully restores operations of Outlook and Teams

Dusseldorf. Microsoft has fully resolved the global disruptions to its services such as Outlook and Teams after more than 24 hours.

“We have completed our measures to resolve the cause of the incident and restored service for the remaining affected customers and regions,” the US software company said on Saturday on the short message platform X.

A massive global outage of Microsoft services has impacted businesses, governments and other users around the globe. The problems began on Thursday evening and developed into one of the longest outages in Microsoft's history. The disruption had a significant impact on businesses and governments worldwide, as Outlook and Teams are among the most widely used office applications.

Hundreds of millions of users were temporarily unable to send emails, manage calendars or hold video conferences. According to Microsoft, functions linked to the cloud-based email and calendar service Exchange Online were particularly affected. Other, unrelated applications continued to run normally.