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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Experts have encouraged businesses to build fallback plans for future outages.
From city governments in the US to spy agencies in Australia, the Microsoft outage is being felt around the world.
Australians wake to empty inboxes due to an issue with Microsoft's products, leading to cancelled appointments, grounded flights and School of Air's closure.
Tech company says services now restored to all customers and regions hit by one of worst IT failures in years
Microsoft services began recovering on Friday after a global outage disrupted Outlook and Teams.
Some of Microsoft’s most popular products, including Outlook, Teams and Copilot, stopped working across the world. Burt the company says it is seeing “encouraging recovery progress”.
