A global Microsoft Outlook outage occurred on Monday, August 31, around 6 PM. The mailbox is currently operational again, although issues with the search function are still arising.
The outage at Microsoft Outlook has been largely resolved. Users worldwide experienced problems using their mailboxes, first reported by VRTnws.
Reports began flooding in from 6 PM on Monday, August 31, according to the outage website Downdetector. Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced that Outlook is working properly again. Only the search function may still experience issues, but a solution is being actively sought.
Search function still disrupted
Outage reports gradually started coming in from around 6 PM on Monday, August 31, peaking at 300 reports around 8 PM. In total, nearly 6,000 reports were received. Users primarily experienced issues logging into Microsoft Outlook and receiving messages.
Microsoft announced via a post on X that Outlook is operational again. Only the search function is reportedly not yet working optimally. Microsoft is currently working on a solution.