Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook and Teams globally, hitting UAE users

A major Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 services globally, including in the UAE, starting Thursday and persisting into Friday morning, with initial fixes failing. The disruption stemmed from connectivity errors in Microsoft's Exchange Online infrastructure, caused by elevated load across multiple regions. Downdetector reported affected services in 74 countries, with UAE users among the most impacted, and Microsoft acknowledged its first repair attempts were unsuccessful. Microsoft paused deployments, redirected traffic, and restarted servers, reporting limited recovery with services expected to return gradually. Users were advised to avoid repeated refreshing, use web versions, and monitor official status pages.