Microsoft Extends Email Timeout to 48 Hours as 365 Outage Hits 70-Plus Countries
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Nov 13
Microsoft Extends Email Timeout to 48 Hours as 365 Outage Hits 70-Plus Countries
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Nov 13
Summary
Microsoft widened its email timeout window to 48 hours to keep delayed messages from being dropped as a Microsoft 365 outage stretched into Friday.
Recovery was progressing in phases, with traffic gradually restored and mailbox access improving after fixes were completed across parts of the Asia-Pacific infrastructure.
More than 1,586 Outlook outage reports were logged on Downdetector by 5:51 a.m. ET, and users in over 70 countries reported problems across Outlook, Teams, Copilot and SharePoint.
Microsoft said it has found no evidence of malicious activity and plans a post-incident report after the disruption, which began around 11:17 a.m. ET Thursday with Exchange Online mailbox access issues.