Microsoft outage live: Outlook and Teams failures impact government agencies, schools and businesses

Microsoft says some servers are returning to service and streamlined recovery process under way to end a global outage

• Microsoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and Teams

Home affairs minister says Microsoft ‘do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event’

Australia’s federal police and security services were affected by the Microsoft outage, the heads of those agencies have confirmed.

The perspective of Microsoft at this stage, they do not believe they are dealing with a cyber event... They believe that they’re dealing in some ways similar to what we saw with respect to CrowdStrike, where there is an update that has that has gone awry.