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Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Teams and Email, Triggers Entra and MFA Login Failures

Microsoft is rebalancing service infrastructure to ease impact during an investigation into load-balancing and directory operations.

Overview

  • Microsoft confirms an active incident on the Service Health Dashboard affecting access to Teams, Exchange Online and the Microsoft 365 admin center.
  • Users report missing Multi-Factor Authentication codes and failures when signing in through Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  • Engineers are rebalancing dependent service infrastructure as a near-term mitigation while reviewing load-balancing and directory pathways.
  • Outage reports climbed into the hundreds on Downdetector, with complaints from the UK, Europe and North America, and Microsoft has not detailed regional scope.
  • Customers are being directed to the Service Health page and the Microsoft 365 status account on X for updates after some reported trouble reaching health portals.