Global Microsoft Outage

Good Morning

You may be aware (from major news sites) that Microsoft are currently dealing with a major worldwide outage (impacting Outlook , Teams and Office 365) ..

We can confirm that , at this time , for University of Dundee ,

Microsoft Teams: Most of the core functionality including joining calls, meetings, group chats, and channel messages are not impacted.

Outlook - currently emails can be sent (but are not being received by recipient) and in some instances existing emails cannot be opened

Office 365 - Word , Excel etc - appear to be working as normal

Microsoft are focussing on restoring services

The following is current status (provided by Microsoft)

**Current status: We’re seeing positive results for server stability after applying an upstream authentication/routing configuration component patch to a portion of our infrastructure. We’ll continue to monitor its progress and are working to expand it to servers supporting active regions coming online.

As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident. We will continue to treat this incident with urgency and priority until full resolution. Once mitigated, we will provide full details of the root cause, defense-in-depth repair items, and more within a Post-Incident Report.**