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Global IT Outage: Microsoft Braces for 48 Hours of Disruption

Global IT Outage: Microsoft Braces for 48 Hours of Disruption

Microsoft has released another service health update as its teams continue working to restore affected services.

The company said recovery work had advanced across parts of the impacted infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, with several restoration measures now complete.

Traffic is being brought back online gradually, and key customer functions—including mailbox access and the processing of delayed emails—are beginning to improve. Microsoft cautioned, however, that some users could still face intermittent disruptions.

Engineers are now extending the same recovery efforts to affected infrastructure in other regions. They are also continuing stabilization work and adding capacity to improve the reliability and consistency of the services.

Clearing email queues and backlogs remains a central priority. Microsoft has kept a 48-hour email timeout window in place to help protect delayed messages while delivery systems catch up.

Microsoft said it has found no indication that malicious activity caused the incident. The company will continue treating the disruption as urgent until it is fully resolved, after which it plans to publish a detailed post-incident report covering the root cause and additional defense measures.