Monitoring - Update from Microsoft (9:00 am AEDT, Saturday 14/11/2026): Microsoft 365 services have recovered and have stayed stable. Microsoft is monitoring for an extended period because of how severe the outage was, and will mark the incident as resolved once it is confident no further action is needed.

Email sent during the outage is now being delivered. Microsoft is working through the backlog, so you may see older emails arriving over the next few hours, sometimes out of order. Microsoft says most issues with other Microsoft 365 services are also fixed.

What to do now:
- Outlook, Teams and other apps should reconnect on their own. If Outlook still isn't connecting, close it fully and reopen it.
- If you're waiting on an important email that hasn't arrived by this afternoon, ask the sender to check whether they received a bounce message and to resend if needed.
- Links in emails and Teams that failed to open during the outage should work again.

Still being worked on:
- SharePoint Online: some users may have trouble sharing files with people outside their organisation, even where external sharing is allowed.
- Some features that rely on Exchange Online, Purview and sensitivity labels may still be catching up.

MPmail customers using Message Continuity
Now that Microsoft 365 has recovered, email held by Message Continuity is being delivered to your normal mailbox. Go back to using Outlook as usual. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre. Microsoft will publish a Post-Incident Report with the root cause once the incident is resolved.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

We'll post a final update when Microsoft marks the incident as resolved.

Nov 14, 2026 - 10:13 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (5:57 pm AEDT): Microsoft has been rebooting servers and applying fixes, and has seen only small improvements so far. It is checking that the fixes are working as intended and is adding more server capacity to handle the load. Microsoft hasn't given a time for full recovery yet.

Microsoft says it is not aware of any malicious activity behind this incident. Once the incident is fixed, Microsoft will publish a full Post-Incident Report explaining the root cause and what it will change to prevent it happening again.

Newly affected: Power Apps and Field Service mobile apps
Users may be intermittently unable to sign in to the Power Apps or Field Service mobile apps.
- Use Power Apps or Field Service in a web browser instead.
- If you're already signed in to the mobile app, stay signed in. Don't sign out, clear the app's data or reinstall it until the issue is fixed.

Everything else is unchanged from our previous updates. In short:
- Outlook email is still unavailable or delayed for many users.
- Teams calls, meetings and chat, and SharePoint and OneDrive file access, are largely working.
- Links protected by Safe Links in emails and Teams may fail to open. Try again later.

About email sent to you during the outage
Most sending email systems keep retrying for at least a day, so most emails sent to you should still arrive once service recovers. Some senders may get a "delivery delayed" notice in the meantime. If an email is time-sensitive, contact the sender another way.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

Our team will post the next update on Saturday morning (14/11/2026). In the meantime, Microsoft's service health page is updated around the clock:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

If service is restored overnight, Outlook and other apps should reconnect on their own, and email sent to you during the outage should start arriving. You don't need to do anything.

Nov 13, 2026 - 18:00 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (5:18 pm AEDT): Microsoft is still working to stabilise its email servers. It is now looking at further ways to control traffic, including throttling, adjusting how connections are handled, and rerouting traffic to healthier regions. It is also testing in a separate environment to better track and detect the problem. Microsoft hasn't given a time for full recovery yet.

Microsoft says it is not aware of any malicious activity behind this incident. Once the incident is fixed, Microsoft will publish a full Post-Incident Report explaining the root cause and what it will change to prevent it happening again.

The list of affected services is unchanged from our previous updates. In short:
- Outlook email is still unavailable or delayed for many users.
- Teams calls, meetings and chat, and SharePoint and OneDrive file access, are largely working.
- Links protected by Safe Links in emails and Teams may fail to open. Try again later.

About email sent to you during the outage
Most sending email systems keep retrying for at least a day, so most emails sent to you should still arrive once service recovers. Some senders may get a "delivery delayed" notice in the meantime. If an email is time-sensitive, contact the sender another way.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update when Microsoft shares new information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 17:34 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (4:46 pm AEDT): Microsoft is still working to find the underlying cause of the traffic flooding its backend email servers. It is repairing affected servers carefully, one batch at a time, so it can confirm each fix has applied before moving on. Microsoft hasn't given a time for full recovery yet.

Microsoft says it is not aware of any malicious activity behind this incident. This is not a cyberattack, and there is no indication your data or accounts have been compromised. Once the incident is fixed, Microsoft will publish a full Post-Incident Report explaining the root cause and what it will change to prevent it happening again.

The list of affected services is unchanged from our previous updates. In short:
- Outlook email is still unavailable or delayed for many users.
- Teams calls, meetings and chat, and SharePoint and OneDrive file access, are largely working.
- Links protected by Safe Links in emails and Teams may fail to open. Try again later.

About email sent to you during the outage
Most sending email systems keep retrying for at least a day, so most emails sent to you should still arrive once service recovers. Some senders may get a "delivery delayed" notice in the meantime. If an email is time-sensitive, contact the sender another way.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update when Microsoft shares new information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 16:54 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (3:57 pm AEDT): Microsoft has found that its routing systems are flooding the backend email servers with requests when they can't reach them properly. Its earlier traffic rebalancing has made this worse. Microsoft is adding server capacity to take the load off, and is pushing a network fix to the servers that are stuck. Some servers are stuck in a state that stops the fix from applying, so progress is slow. Microsoft hasn't given a time for full recovery yet.

The list of affected services is unchanged from our previous update. In short:
- Outlook email is still unavailable or delayed for many users.
- Teams calls, meetings and chat, and SharePoint and OneDrive file access, are largely working.
- Links protected by Safe Links in emails and Teams may fail to open. Try again later.

About email sent to you during the outage
Most sending email systems keep retrying for at least a day, so most emails sent to you should still arrive once service recovers. Some senders may get a "delivery delayed" notice in the meantime. If an email is time-sensitive, contact the sender another way.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update when Microsoft shares new information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 16:01 AEDT
Update - Latest update from Microsoft: Microsoft is adjusting, redistributing and selectively blocking traffic to stabilise its servers. These changes have brought partial recovery in some regions, but the recovery isn't lasting. Microsoft is now looking at further steps to stabilise its infrastructure. Its next update is due by 4:00 pm AEDT.

What's still working:
- Teams calls, meetings, group chats and standard channel messages are largely working.
- Files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive can still be opened.

What's affected:
- Email: Outlook (desktop, web and mobile) may not connect to mailboxes, and email delivery may be delayed.
- Links in emails and Teams: links protected by Safe Links may fail to open when clicked. Try again later rather than clicking repeatedly.
- Teams: calendar features may fail, including scheduling, invites, viewing and editing meetings. Creating Live or Virtual events, adding or syncing contacts, and creating or deleting private and shared channels may also fail.
- Copilot: Copilot Chat may not load or respond, and may not be able to use your email, calendar or files.
- Intune: device enrolment, device check-in and compliance policies may be intermittently affected.
- Planner and To Do: may not load, or tasks may fail to save.
- Microsoft 365 apps: recently used files may not show.
- Microsoft 365 Education: Assignments, Reading Progress and Speaker Progress may be affected.
- Admin portals: some pages in the Microsoft 365 admin centre, Defender portal, Purview portal and Microsoft 365 Apps admin centre may not load.
- Purview: Data Loss Prevention, sensitivity labels and auto-labelling, Communication Compliance, data classification, audit searches and eDiscovery search and export are affected. Users may be unable to open or create protected content.
- Power BI and Microsoft Fabric: exporting, updating or opening reports with sensitivity labels may fail. If your organisation's data protection policies allow it, removing the sensitivity label from the item lets you complete the task.
- Microsoft Graph: requests for mail, calendar or contacts data may time out. Managing Teams, channels, membership and apps, and sending activity notifications through Graph may also fail.
- Universal Print: print jobs and admin features may fail.
- Windows 365: users may be unable to connect to Cloud PCs if your tenant uses Microsoft Purview Customer Key for Windows 365.

For IT administrators, Defender for Office 365 is also affected:
- Safe Attachments, protection and submission policies may fail.
- Quarantine, Threat Explorer and email remediation events may not load, and releasing items from quarantine may fail.
- Tenant Allow/Block List changes, message traces, reporting, role-based access changes and outbound protection may be delayed.

As service returns, Outlook and other apps should reconnect on their own. You don't need to reinstall or reconfigure anything. Until email is back, use Teams chat or call people directly for anything urgent.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on. With no fix in sight yet, it's worth turning on now if you haven't already.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update after Microsoft's next update.

Nov 13, 2026 - 15:26 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (2:07 pm AEDT): The capacity changes Microsoft applied earlier have not worked as expected. Microsoft is now looking at other ways to increase capacity while traffic remains unevenly balanced. Microsoft hasn't given a time for full recovery yet.

What's still working:
- Teams calls, meetings, group chats and standard channel messages are largely working.
- Files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive can still be opened.

What's affected:
- Email: Outlook (desktop, web and mobile) may not connect to mailboxes, and email delivery may be delayed.
- Teams: calendar features may fail, including scheduling, invites, viewing and editing meetings. Creating Live or Virtual events, adding or syncing contacts, and creating or deleting private and shared channels may also fail.
- Copilot: Copilot Chat may not load or respond, and may not be able to use your email, calendar or files.
- Defender for Office 365: Safe Links may not be able to check links in Outlook and Teams.
- Intune: device enrolment, device check-in and compliance policies may be intermittently affected.
- Planner and To Do: may not load, or tasks may fail to save.
- Microsoft 365 apps: recently used files may not show.
- Microsoft 365 Education: Assignments, Reading Progress and Speaker Progress may be affected.
- Admin portals: some pages in the Microsoft 365 admin centre, Defender portal, Purview portal and Microsoft 365 Apps admin centre may not load.
- Purview: Data Loss Prevention, sensitivity labels and auto-labelling, Communication Compliance, data classification, audit searches and eDiscovery search and export are affected. Users may be unable to open or create protected content.
- Power BI and Microsoft Fabric: exporting, updating or opening reports with sensitivity labels may fail. If your organisation's data protection policies allow it, removing the sensitivity label from the item lets you complete the task.
- Microsoft Graph: requests for mail, calendar or contacts data may time out. Managing Teams, channels, membership and apps, and sending activity notifications through Graph may also fail.
- Universal Print: print jobs and admin features may fail.
- Windows 365: users may be unable to connect to Cloud PCs if your tenant uses Microsoft Purview Customer Key for Windows 365.

As service returns, Outlook and other apps should reconnect on their own. You don't need to reinstall or reconfigure anything. Until email is back, use Teams chat or call people directly for anything urgent.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on. With no fix in sight yet, it's worth turning on now if you haven't already.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update as Microsoft shares more information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 14:39 AEDT
Update - Latest update from Microsoft: Some regions are starting to come back online. Microsoft is adding infrastructure capacity to handle the returning traffic and is monitoring the changes so it can improve service in all affected regions. Microsoft hasn't given a time for full recovery yet.

What's still working:
- Teams chat, messaging and online meetings are largely working.
- Files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive can still be opened.

What's affected:
- Email: Outlook (desktop, web and mobile) may not connect to mailboxes, and email delivery may be delayed.
- Teams: calendar and meeting scheduling may fail.
- Copilot: Copilot Chat may not load or respond, and may not be able to use your email, calendar or files.
- Defender for Office 365: Safe Links may not be able to check links in Outlook and Teams.
- Planner and To Do: may not load, or tasks may fail to save.
- Microsoft 365 apps: recently used files may not show.
- Microsoft 365 Education: Assignments, Reading Progress and Speaker Progress may be affected.
- Admin portals: some pages in the Microsoft 365 admin centre, Defender portal, Purview portal and Microsoft 365 Apps admin centre may not load. Intune is also affected.
- Purview: Data Loss Prevention, auto-labelling, Communication Compliance and data classification are affected.
- Power BI and Microsoft Fabric: exporting, updating or opening reports with sensitivity labels may fail. If your organisation's data protection policies allow it, removing the sensitivity label from the item lets you complete the task.
- Microsoft Graph: requests for mail, calendar or contacts data may time out.
- Universal Print: print jobs and admin features may fail.
- Windows 365: users may be unable to connect to Cloud PCs if your tenant uses Microsoft Purview Customer Key for Windows 365.

As service returns, Outlook and other apps should reconnect on their own. You don't need to reinstall or reconfigure anything. Until email is back, use Teams chat or call people directly for anything urgent.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update as Microsoft shares more information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 13:32 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (11:56 am AEDT): Microsoft has narrowed down what is affected. The outage is mainly with Exchange Online (email, calendar and contacts). Other Microsoft 365 services are only affected where they rely on Exchange Online, and their other features keep working. Microsoft is still working to fix the underlying server problem. Its next update is due by 12:30 pm AEDT.

What's still working:
- Teams chat, messaging and online meetings are largely working.
- Files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive can still be opened.

What's affected:
- Email: Outlook (desktop, web and mobile) may not connect to mailboxes, and email delivery may be delayed.
- Teams: calendar and meeting scheduling may fail.
- Copilot: Copilot Chat may not load or respond, and may not be able to use your email, calendar or files.
- Defender for Office 365: Safe Links may not be able to check links in Outlook and Teams.
- Planner and To Do: may not load, or tasks may fail to save.
- Microsoft 365 apps: recently used files may not show.
- Microsoft 365 Education: Assignments, Reading Progress and Speaker Progress may be affected.
- Admin portals: some pages in the Microsoft 365 admin centre, Defender portal, Purview portal and Microsoft 365 Apps admin centre may not load. Intune is also affected.
- Purview: Data Loss Prevention, auto-labelling, Communication Compliance and data classification are affected.
- Power BI and Microsoft Fabric: exporting or updating reports with sensitivity labels may fail.
- Microsoft Graph: requests for mail, calendar or contacts data may time out.
- Universal Print: print jobs and admin features may fail.
- Windows 365: users may be unable to connect to Cloud PCs if your tenant uses Microsoft Purview Customer Key for Windows 365.

Until email is back, use Teams chat or call people directly for anything urgent.

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on. With no fix confirmed yet, it's worth turning on now if you haven't already.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre. Microsoft Graph integrations that read mail, calendar or contacts may time out.

We'll post another update after Microsoft's next update.

Nov 13, 2026 - 12:05 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (11:08 am AEDT): The servers Microsoft returned to service earlier are healthy at first but can stop responding again once they start receiving traffic. This means recovery is slower than expected. Microsoft's engineers are analysing diagnostic data to find out what's causing this.

Microsoft is also limiting which types of traffic can reach the affected servers in some locations, to find out whether a particular type of request is causing the problem and to restore service step by step. In parallel, it is rebuilding some servers with an earlier software configuration and will roll this out more widely if it works.

Microsoft's next update is due by 12:30 pm AEDT.

Services that may be affected:
- Exchange Online (Outlook email)
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To Do
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender XDR and Defender for Office 365
- Microsoft Purview, including Data Loss Prevention, auto-labelling and data classification
- Power BI: exporting reports with sensitivity labels to PDF may fail
- Microsoft 365 Apps admin centre: Cloud Update, Cloud Policy and Inventory
- Universal Print: print jobs and admin features may fail
- Windows 365: users may be unable to connect to Cloud PCs if your tenant uses Microsoft Purview Customer Key for Windows 365

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on. With no fix confirmed yet, it's worth turning on now if you haven't already.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update after Microsoft's next update.

Nov 13, 2026 - 11:37 AEDT
Update - Update from Microsoft (10:06 am AEDT): Microsoft has started returning some of the affected servers to service and says they are stable so far. It has also moved traffic to alternative pathways where it can and is seeing limited recovery in some regions. Microsoft is now speeding up recovery of the remaining servers and reducing load on the affected infrastructure, starting in one location and expanding if that works.

As capacity comes back, recovery will be gradual. Apps may reconnect on their own over time, so you don't need to reinstall or reconfigure anything.

Services that may be affected:
- Exchange Online (Outlook email)
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To Do
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender XDR and Defender for Office 365
- Microsoft Purview, including Data Loss Prevention, auto-labelling and data classification
- Power BI: exporting reports with sensitivity labels to PDF may fail
- Microsoft 365 Apps admin centre: Cloud Update, Cloud Policy and Inventory
- Universal Print: print jobs and admin features may fail

For live status, check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

MPmail customers: keep email running with Message Continuity
If your domain uses MPmail and the Message Continuity service is enabled, your users can keep sending and receiving email while Microsoft 365 is down.

- Webmail: log in at https://webmailer.hornetsecurity.com/ with your email address and MPmail password.
- Mobile devices and other mail apps can connect using IMAP or POP. Settings are in the guide below.
- When Microsoft 365 recovers, email received during the outage is delivered to your normal mailbox. Emails deleted in continuity webmail are not delivered.

If Message Continuity isn't enabled yet, you can turn it on now in the MPmail portal (Management > Select Domain > Email > Continuity Service) and activate your users. It takes about 30 minutes to start and only covers email sent or received after it's turned on.

Setup guide:
https://support.manageprotect.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001892697-provisioning-mpmail-message-continuity-service-included-in-ultimate-access-

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

We'll post another update as Microsoft shares more information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 10:34 AEDT
Identified - Microsoft is experiencing a global outage affecting Microsoft 365. Many users cannot send or receive email in Outlook, and some are seeing problems with Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and the Microsoft 365 admin centre. The issue began at about 4:00 am AEDT on Friday 13/11/2026.

This is a problem on Microsoft's side. Your devices, passwords and accounts are not the cause.

Microsoft says a number of its servers became unexpectedly unavailable, which overloaded the remaining infrastructure. It has paused deployments, is moving traffic away from the affected servers, and is restarting them to restore service.

For the latest status, please check Microsoft's service health page:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/

In the meantime:
- Please don't reset your password or reinstall Office. Neither will fix the problem.
- Avoid resending the same email repeatedly. Messages may be delayed and arrive once service recovers.
- For anything urgent, call or text the person directly.

IT administrators: Microsoft is tracking this in the Microsoft 365 admin centre under incident IDs EX1550543 and MO1550821.

We'll post another update as Microsoft shares more information.

Nov 13, 2026 - 09:02 AEDT
Identified - We’re aware that some commercial Microsoft 365 licences now appear with “(Non-Profit Pricing)” after the product name on the Billing > Licences page in the Microsoft 365 admin centre. This has mostly affected Microsoft 365 Business Standard.

Microsoft has confirmed this is a known issue affecting partners and customers across the APAC region, and is working on a fix. No resolution timeframe is available yet.

What this means for you and your customers

Affected subscriptions remain standard commercial subscriptions.
Billing is not affected. Your Manage Protect invoices and the subscriptions shown in Converge are correct and unchanged.

What you need to do

No action is needed. Please don’t cancel, convert or repurchase subscriptions because of this label, as that could cause unintended charges or service changes. If you see anything beyond the label (missing licences, changed pricing or service problems), please contact our support team.

We’ll update this page when Microsoft confirms a fix

Nov 11, 2026 - 12:05 AEDT
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Dropsuite Operational
CloudAlly Operational
Microsoft 365 Operational
Service Desk & Support Systems Operational
Service & Feature updates Operational
Converge Operational
Guardz Operational
Octiga Operational
Invoicing and Billing Operational
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance
Major outage
Partial outage
No downtime recorded on this day.
No data exists for this day.
had a major outage.
had a partial outage.

Nov 14, 2026

Unresolved incident: Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise).

Nov 13, 2026

Unresolved incident: Microsoft 365 licences incorrectly labelled “(Non-Profit Pricing)” in the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

Nov 12, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 11, 2026

Nov 10, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 9, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 8, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 7, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 6, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 5, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 31, 2026

No incidents reported.