Microsoft Outlook outages reported nationwide

Microsoft Outlook is experiencing outages in multiple regions nationwide, causing trouble for users trying to access their emails. In a release on Thursday afternoon, the company said it’s actively investigating the issue, which is also impacting other Microsoft software like Teams.“We’ve determined the affected infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors,” a spokesperson said. Per Microsoft, the company is restarting and repairing impacted portions of the infrastructure to help fix these issues, as well as “reviewing an unexpected increase” in specific service traffic to figure out whether it’s contributing to the problem.“We’re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,” the company announced shortly after 2 p.m. “We’ve paused all deployments, we’re moving additional traffic off the affected infrastructure, and we’re restarting affected servers to return them to service.”