Live updates: Microsoft scrambles to fix major outage affecting millions across the world

The tech giant said efforts to resolve the issue were not going as expected, leaving services like Teams and Outlook disrupted into Friday.

Microsoft says in its most recent update that it is seeing positive results in its bid to fix the major global outage.

“We’re seeing positive results for server stability after applying an upstream authentication/routing configuration component patch to a portion of our infrastructure,” the company said in an update about 2:30 a.m. ET.

It said that it was “not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident,” adding that it would continue to work with “urgency” until the widespread issue is resolved.

“Once mitigated, we will provide full details of the root cause, defense-in-depth repair items, and more within a Post-Incident Report.”

Essential workplace tools like Outlook email were unavailable for many in global outages. Here's what to know.

A massive global outage impacting more than a dozen Microsoft cloud services, including Outlook email and Teams messaging stretched into this morning as the tech giant struggled to restore the service, which is critical to the day-to-day functions of governments, schools and businesses around the world.

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