Microsoft is restoring services after a global outage that disrupts access to Outlook and Teams, with impacts extending to other Microsoft services including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and OneDrive. The company says some servers are returning to service and that a streamlined recovery process is underway. It also says there is no indication of a cyber attack and suggests the fix could take some time, including because servers it restores can become unresponsive again as traffic returns.
Across Australia, organisations report wide-ranging disruption to email and related online systems, leaving some services at a standstill. The Guardian reports government agencies, schools and businesses are affected, including Australian federal police and security services, and notes that NSW’s Digital NSW is investigating the impact on NSW government systems. ABC Australia says the country’s cybersecurity chief is looking into the outage. PerthNow emphasises that organisations are scrambling to recover as Microsoft works to fix its “crucial services.”
