Microsoft services still disrupted globally after recovery efforts hit snags

Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot remain disrupted globally this morning as the company works to resolve an outage that began late Thursday, with some restored servers becoming unresponsive again under traffic. The outage affects email and other Microsoft 365 services across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, according to Downdetector. Microsoft is analyzing diagnostic data, adjusting traffic flow, and temporarily blocking some traffic to stabilize systems, reporting partial recovery in some regions. The disruption has impacted public services abroad, including Australia's email systems, Japan's government IT infrastructure, and New Zealand's paused visa processing. Microsoft says it is seeing positive results from traffic optimization actions and implementing them more broadly.