In Brief An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services.The technology giant said in a post on X around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by a “portion of service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as expected.” Microsoft didn’t provide specific details of the cause of the outage, but said it was “working to restore the infrastructure to a healthy state to achieve recovery.” M ...

Core Viewpoint - Microsoft is currently addressing technical issues affecting its Outlook application, which is a critical component of the Microsoft 365 productivity software suite [1][2]. Group 1: Technical Issues - Users are experiencing a '451 4.3.2 temporary server issue' error message when trying to send or receive emails through Outlook [3]. - The outage has also impacted the OneDrive cloud file storage and SharePoint Online collaboration services, causing slow searches or complete failures [3]. Group 2: Service Disruption - The incident occurred during U.S. business hours, prompting discussions on social media as various institutions, including schools and government entities, faced disruptions [2]. - Microsoft identified that a portion of its service infrastructure in North America was not managing traffic properly and is actively working to resolve the issue [4].