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Microsoft outage impacting Outlook and Teams users worldwide
- By approximately 9:30am AEDT on 13 November, there were over 5000 reports of access issues impacting tools such as Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and many more services
- “We’re investigating what’s causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service,” Microsoft said.
Why you need to knowA widespread Microsoft outage could have significant impacts on businesses, government and schools if not rectified quickly.
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