Microsoft restores Outlook, Teams after 24-hour global outage

Microsoft has fully restored services across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that disrupted communications for businesses and government agencies for more than 24 hours.

The company announced the recovery on Saturday, saying it had resolved the underlying technical issue and restored services to all remaining affected customers and regions.

"We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," Microsoft said in a post on X.

The outage, which began on Thursday, affected several Microsoft 365 services, including its cloud-based email and scheduling platform Exchange Online, as well as Teams and its Copilot artificial intelligence assistant.

Microsoft attributed the disruption to server-related technical problems and said it had found no evidence of malicious activity or a cyberattack.