Microsoft is at present having points with Exchange Online, a part of its Microsoft 365 cloud service. The primary presentation at present is with delayed e-mail or e-mail that’s bouncing utterly and failing to ship. This is affecting each inbound and outbound e-mail.
The Office 365 assist account on Twitter notes:
We’ve recognized {that a} subset of infrastructure is unable to course of requests for customers served by North America, which is leading to a message backlog and inflicting supply delays or failures. More info may be discovered within the admin heart below EX237654.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) February 3, 2021
As famous within the final tweet, the difficulty seems to be as a result of dangerous {hardware}, which Microsoft will hopefully have the ability to resolve in a short while.
DownDetector nevertheless suggests is has been ongoing for not less than 2 hours now, so Microsoft higher get a crack on.