<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3Fhwwj_1H2JcbpC00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Fhwwj_1H2JcbpC00" width="1200" height="600" ><p>CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Microsoft experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that affected its Exchange servers and caused connectivity problems, including for Outlook email, the Microsoft Store, and Teams.</p><p>It is unclear how widespread the outage is.</p><h2>What was affected</h2><p>The outage also affected area hospitals. UIHC posted on social media that it was experiencing issues with emails and voicemails.</p><p>The disruption affected companies that rely on email for time-sensitive information, according to Pro Circular, a cybersecurity company based in North Liberty.</p><h2>Advice from a cybersecurity company</h2><p>Brandon Blankenship, Pro Circular CISO, said it is important to have a plan in place that includes redundancies to keep moving forward.</p><p>“Try to have an alternate method of doing that same business function. So it really isn’t about avoiding the bad day, because we all use Microsoft, it’s about having an alternate way to do something to achieve the same business outcome,” Blankenship said.</p><h2>Cause and recovery</h2><p>Pro Circular said there is no indication the interruption was a cyber-attack.</p><p>As of 7 p.m., Microsoft said it was bringing servers back on slowly and that it had seen some apps reconnect.</p></div></body>

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Microsoft experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that affected its Exchange servers and caused connectivity problems, including for Outlook email, the Microsoft Store, and Teams. It is unclear how widespread the outage is. What was affected. The outage also affected area hospitals. UIHC posted on social...

Microsoft outage disrupts email, Teams, and Microsoft Store

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Microsoft experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that affected its Exchange servers and caused connectivity problems, includi

Microsoft outage disrupts email, Teams, and Microsoft Store

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