Having trouble with Outlook, Teams, or Microsoft 365 today? You're not alone: Microsoft is dealing with a big outage across the Americas on November 12, 2026.
Around 128,000 reports have been recorded for Outlook, and tens of thousands more with other Microsoft services.
Microsoft's infrastructure was experiencing elevated loads across multiple regions, likely contributing to connectivity errors.
Microsoft repairing infrastructure, update 8:30 UTC
Microsoft says it's working to get things back on track. Its team is restarting and repairing affected parts of its infrastructure to restore capacity and evaluating options to redirect traffic to alternate infrastructure to speed up recovery, but some users might still face hiccups for now.
The company plans to share its next update at 8:30pm. UTC today, so keep an eye out for more information if you're still stuck.