MS365 outage limited to NZ: Microsoft

The impact of this morning's outage appears to have been unevenly spread across users in NZ. (Image: Getty)

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

A widespread outage of Microsoft services that affected several large businesses this morning is unrelated to a cyber attack last night and is limited to New Zealand, the software giant says.Microsoft365 services including Exchange Online, Outlook and Teams were inaccessible for many on Thursday morning.The impact appears to have been unevenly spread across users in NZ.Spark and 2degrees representatives confirmed some customers on their networks were affected by the outage, but a One NZ representative said none of its customers were.A spokesper...

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