Microsoft is dealing with an outage affecting Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams, including users in Italy. The most consequential point is not the volume of outage reports but Microsoft’s warning that Microsoft 365 connectivity could be affected in any geographic area.
La Repubblica reported that the disruption lasted for more than an hour and involved users in several countries, including Italy. At about 6pm Italian time, Downdetector recorded more than 130,000 reports concerning Outlook in the United States, more than 46,000 reports for Microsoft 365 and about 3,000 for Teams. Those figures are reports submitted to a monitoring platform, however, not a verified count of affected users.
Microsoft said it was working to mitigate the impact. The company linked connectivity errors to high load on part of its infrastructure and said it would redistribute traffic to balance that load. It also reported problems accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas.
That distinction matters because Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 are intertwined work and communications tools. A surge in reports shows experienced disruption, but it does not establish the outage’s operational reach. Microsoft had earlier said a Teams problem affecting North America had been resolved, while users were still reporting connection difficulties.
For users in Italy, the useful development is that Microsoft has acknowledged the possibility of broad geographic impact and described an infrastructure response. The reporting supplied does not give a precise cause, an Italian user total or a time for full restoration. Treating Downdetector reports as a confirmed measure of the outage’s scale would make the picture less accurate.
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- la Repubblica · Source date: 2026-11-12
Independent editorial content. WUA is not affiliated with any political party. 2026-11-12