<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3VZqMI_1H1atg4I00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3VZqMI_1H1atg4I00" width="1228" height="690" >SALT LAKE CITY — Microsoft Outlook went dark for nearly 17 hours beginning Thursday morning, shutting down email and chat services for hundreds of thousands of users, including those in Utah.Microsoft announced the issue at 10:54 a.m. Thursday morning, determining that the issue was due to several servers that became "unexpectedly unavailable." Over the next several hours, it continued to update the public regarding its efforts to restore connection.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas. More details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX1550543.— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) <a href="https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/2120938282204688468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2026</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote>Down Detector showed a massive spike in reports at 11:14 a.m., with more than 131,000 reports submitted regarding problems with Outlook. Thousands of users in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Minneapolis all reported problems, along with other users across the country.After more than an hour of no Outlook, Microsoft said it was "aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact."A potential solution was implemented on a small number of impacted servers around 2 p.m.In an update shortly after 4 p.m., the company said it was "returning a portion of affected servers to the service, and they remain stable so far.""As capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect," the post on X continued.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">We're returning a portion of affected servers to the service, and they remain stable so far. We're also shifting traffic to alternate routes wherever possible and observing limited recovery. In parallel, we've streamlined the process of returning the remaining affected servers to service. As capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://t.co/pYdahqxDv3 if the admin center is not available to you.— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) <a href="https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121016338181161457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2026</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote>Early Friday, Microsoft announced it had made additional progress toward recovery, with "improvements in key scenarios," though it warned that intermittent outages could still occur.</div></body>

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SALT LAKE CITY — Microsoft Outlook went dark for nearly 17 hours beginning Thursday morning, shutting down email and chat services for hundreds of thousands of users, including those in Utah. Microsoft announced the issue at 10:54 a.m. Thursday morning, determining that the issue was due to several servers...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Microsoft Outlook went dark for nearly 17 hours beginning Thursday morning, shutting down email and chat services for hundreds of thousand

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