Microsoft 365 outage blacks out Teams and email for Australian workers
Microsoft 365 services including Teams and Exchange went down, disrupting Australian workplaces Friday morning.
In the early hours of Friday, Microsoft 365 services crashed worldwide. Teams, Exchange email, SharePoint and OneDrive all went down.
Australian companies suddenly lost access to important messaging and document-sharing tools as the work day began. Microsoft tried quick restarts but admitted by mid-afternoon the tries were not working.
Multiple servers failed under load. The company was trying to restore capacity, but systems stayed affected by traffic management issues.
- Early hours Friday morning AEDT
- Failure start time
- 5:35 AM AEDT
- First status update
Why it mattersAustralian workers lost email, messaging and document access, disrupting business operations.
