A worldwide Microsoft outage has taken down Outlook at the University of Oxford. The outage began on Thursday evening and had not been fixed at the time of publication.
In a statement, the University said the outage “is affecting some University systems, including Outlook, which is currently unavailable”. It added that it was “actively monitoring” the situation and posting updates on status.ox.ac.uk. Students and staff use Microsoft’s 365 service for email, calendar, and Teams.
On the outage tracker Downdetector, UK reports of problems with Microsoft Outlook in the UK first spiked at 6pm yesterday, passing 3000. As of 8am today, over 7000 issues had been reported.
Microsoft said a number of its servers had become “unexpectedly unavailable”, which put an “elevated load” on the rest of its infrastructure. The company has so far said there is no sign it was a cybersecurity incident.
This is a developing story. Cherwell will update the article as more information becomes available.
