Microsoft’s Outlook email hit by new outage

In Brief Posted: 11:03 AM PST · November 12, 2026 Image Credits:David Ryder / Bloomberg / Getty Images Microsoft said its Outlook email service is currently experiencing an outage, preventing users from accessing their inboxes. The issue was initially flagged as affecting the U.S. and the Americas, and later expanded to affect “any region.” Microsoft hasn’t given a specific cause, but said that it was providing updates in its admin center, which wasn’t reachable at the time of publication. Per a post on X who can’t access the admin center, Microsoft said some of its infrastructure was experiencing “elevated load,” and that it was “redistributing connection traffic across our broader worldwide infrastructure to help balance the load.” The company’s last major incident was in September, which caused a days-long outage of its online productivity suite, Microsoft 365, which includes Outlook. During that outage, Microsoft blamed a “core authentication configuration,” which prevented users from accessing the service. It’s unclear to what extent the outage extends to other services. TechCrunch will reach out to Microsoft for comment, as soon as our email service has resumed. Newsletters Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Related Latest in Apps