Australian law enforcement agencies and schools were unable to send emails on Friday after a Microsoft outage knocked the services offline.
Thousands of Australian businesses and law enforcement agencies struggled to access emails and other online accounts after a global Microsoft outage knocked software offline in the early hours of Friday.
More than 5500 Australian users reported problems with their Outlook emails on monitoring website Down Detector on Friday by 9am. Teams and the Copilot artificial intelligence service were also offline.
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Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
Microsoft 365 is starting to recover as its outage enters a second day.
