The technology giant said it was "monitoring the backlog of email messages accrued during this event" before considering the issue with the enterprise services resolved.

Microsoft said the outage was traced to an issue that emerged during an earlier network capacity upgrade and was triggered after a more recent network change. It said recovery was deliberately carried out in stages rather than through a single large-scale restart.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A global outage taking down a wide range of Microsoft 365 services remains ongoing Friday morning. The outage started midday Thursday, impacting users of Microsoft email, cloud, and AI services. Microsoft has documented the full list of services...