Widespread Microsoft outage affecting some Warwick services

Incident Report for Warwick Business School

Investigating

Microsoft is currently investigating a global service issue affecting connectivity to multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Defender. Microsoft has identified elevated load across infrastructure in multiple regions and is working to restore capacity. Users may experience intermittent problems accessing affected Microsoft 365 services. Microsoft is actively working on the issue.

The central university IT team will continue to monitor the Microsoft service health updates overnight and post status information at https://warwick.ac.uk/services/idg/it-status/ . You may also find this site useful: https://status.cloud.microsoft
Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 22:18 GMT
This incident affects: General.