Microsoft 365 outage hits as Teams, Outlook, Office go down "for some"

Microsoft has confirmed that some of the Microsoft 365 services are currently down again. The company confirmed this via its official Microsoft 365 Status X handle as it notes that the Office.com portal and some of its related services are inaccessible at the moment. The tech giant has informed that you can get status updates regarding the progress of the bug on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center portal with issue ID "MO1245624" so details regarding the outage will be shared there.

We"re investigating an issue affecting Microsoft 365 services for some customers in the North American region. More information is provided in the admin center under MO1245624 or https://t.co/uSHwRmXFJZ.

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) March 6, 2026

The official Microsoft 365 Service Health Status website currently lists that there is an issue with only some admins in the North America region:

"User impact: Admins in the North America region may be unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Current status: We"re reviewing service monitoring telemetry to isolate the root cause and develop a remediation plan.

Scope of impact: Impact is specific to some admins located in the North America region attempting to access the admin center."

We will update the post once more details are available.


Update, March 7 2025, 4.30 GMT: Microsoft has confirmed it managed to fix the issues. The following updates were provided since the initial report stating that the CDN or Content Delivery Network was affected:

We’ve focused our investigation on Content Delivery Network dependencies affecting access to multiple Microsoft 365 services. Some customers have reported the issue is no longer occurring, though we"re continuing to investigate. Additional information is provided in the admin…

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) March 6, 2026

Telemetry that monitors CDN interactions shows there is no longer impact. We"ve confirmed that a CDN endpoint became unavailable and our automated recovery mechanisms did not take immediate action, which we continue to investigate. Additional information is provided in the admin…

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) March 6, 2026

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