Microsoft Outlook Down: Thousands Hit by Email Outage as Users Unable to Send, Receive or Open Messages

Microsoft Outlook Is Down

Microsoft Outlook is down for many users as of Monday afternoon. In addition, other Microsoft services, including Microsoft 365, are also down.

Is Microsoft Outlook down? Thousands reporting issues Aug. 31

Thousands of users are reporting Microsoft Outlook outages on Monday, Aug. 31, according to Downdetector.com.

Microsoft Outlook down: Thousands hit by email outage as users unable to send, receive or open messages

On Monday morning, Microsoft Outlook users encountered significant email access difficulties due to an authentication glitch linked to Exchange Online. Thousands reported disruptions, prompting Microsoft to recognize the issue and start implementing a remediation approach. The company assured users that engineers were actively engaged in a broad fix. Problems included the inability to send or receive emails and access accounts.

What caused Outlook outage? Microsoft reacts amid email failures, authentication issues

Microsoft is investigating a major service disruption affecting Exchange Online users, causing email delays and authentication errors.

Microsoft Exchange Online outage causes email failures, auth issues

Microsoft is investigating a widespread service issue causing authentication issues, email delays and failures, and various other issues for Exchange Online customers.