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Exchange Online: Outage - Users unable to access mailboxes and Microsoft 365 web applications

Incident Report for UVic IT

Update

The university is aware that users are experiencing issues accessing Microsoft services, including email/Outlook, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, and more. This issue is affecting Microsoft users across North America. University Systems is monitoring the issue and working as quickly as possible to address impacts where we can.

Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 12:18 MST

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. We are currently receiving reports of issues connecting with Outlook and other Microsoft 365 web applications.

Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 12:02 MST

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. We are currently receiving reports of issues connecting with Outlook and other Microsoft 365 web applications.

Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 11:43 MST

Identified

We are investigating an outage affecting connection to Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods. Users may be unable to access their mailboxes at this time.

Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 11:24 MST

This incident affects: Email (Email) and Microsoft Services (Microsoft Teams, Other M365 Services).