Microsoft Outage updates: Global outage ends after tech giant restores services across all affected systems

Microsoft global outage which began on Thursday (November 12, 2026) and lasted until Saturday (November 14, 2026) disrupted email access, calendar services and workplace communication, affecting operations across several businesses and Government agencies.

On Friday (November 13, 2026), services across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications began to be restored, with Microsoft fully restoring operations across all services on Saturday (November 14, 2026), ending the nearly 24 hour outage.

During the disruption, Downdetector recorded a peak of nearly 200,000 user reports of issues across Microsoft services shortly after 1 p.m. New York time on Thursday Microsoft added that email messages backlog and other issues with various services were also restored on Saturday (November 14, 2026).

Microsoft reports consumer services fully recovered, ongoing recovery for Microsoft 365 enterprise services, and monitoring for potential further issues. Microsoft said efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident have been completed.

It added that services to remaining impacted customers and regions have also been restored. Microsoft’s service health page showed all products became operational on Saturday. The page read “All products are operational” on Saturday morning, including Microsoft 365 (business or enterprise) and consumer products.

Microsoft said it was “monitoring the backlog of email messages ‌accrued during this event” before considering the issue with ⁠the enterprise services resolved. “Due to ‌the severity of impact this incident caused, we’re monitoring for an extended period to ‌ensure no additional mitigative actions are required,” Microsoft said in ⁠an update on its ⁠service status page.

Microsoft ⁠said ⁠on Friday its consumer products ‌services had fully recovered at 4:10 p.m. UTC ‌on Friday (1610 GMT), ‌while it was seeing some ⁠sustained recovery ‌for its Microsoft 365 enterprise services. The global disruption of multiple Microsoft services, which continued late into Friday, affected several Indian businesses’ internal communications and customer-facing operations.

Microsoft outage disrupts global services, hitting Indian businesses, airlines, public sectors, with recovery underway and security advisories issued. Microsoft said on Saturday that services across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications had fully recovered, bringing an end to a massive global outage that disrupted online communication for businesses and government agencies for more than 24 hours.

During the disruption, Downdetector recorded a peak of nearly 200,000 user reports of issues across Microsoft services shortly after 1 pm New York time. While fresh reports of problems involving Outlook and Copilot subsequently declined, this did not initially indicate that services had been fully restored.

Microsoft says services are seeing widespread recovery after a major outage caused by a network capacity upgrade issue. US media reports say DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin ruled out any connection between Microsoft’s disruption and the FAA outage that triggered a nationwide ground stop on Friday (November 13).

Mullin also dismissed the possibility of a cyberattack, confirming that the ground stop had been lifted. He said authorities were working with airports to ensure passenger safety and access to essential medication. US media reports say Microsoft has identified the cause of one of its largest outages to date.

Experts told NBC News that the disruption highlights the growing complexity of large-scale computing networks and the risks associated with their expanding infrastructure. Several U.S. cities are reporting a gradual return to normal after the widespread Microsoft outage disrupted government services.

According to CNN, services have begun recovering in Jacksonville, Austin and Dallas, while the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that an issue with its online bond payment system had been resolved. Microsoft also said the underlying issue had been addressed, with recovery efforts underway.