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LATEST13/11/2026

Microsoft 365 Outage, November 2026: What Went Wrong, How Microsoft Can Fix It, and What to Do Now

A global Microsoft 365 outage has taken down Outlook, Exchange Online and services that depend on them since Thursday 12 November. What Microsoft has said, where recovery stands, our view of what went wrong and how to fix it, and what IT teams should do now.

Category Overview

Production engineering in News Outages

Technical reports for engineers designing and operating news outages systems. Explore implementation patterns, diagnostic methods, failure modes and the trade-offs that determine whether a design remains dependable in production.

Enterprise News Outages

Understand the components, boundaries and dependencies that shape dependable news outages designs.

Implementation & Automation

Apply changes through repeatable automation with clear validation, monitoring and recovery controls.

Failure Analysis

Recognise common failure signatures and choose diagnostic evidence that narrows the problem quickly.