Exchange email bounces back as Microsoft resolves Office 365 issues

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You're going to have a lot of catching up to do

MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED that Office 365 is back up and running after suffering downtime across Europe on Thursday.

The downtime left users, including us here at The INQUIRER, unable to access their Exchange email account via a web browser.

At the time, Down Detector showed that Microsoft's cloud service has been stuttering since 9.17am on Thursday, and confirmed that the outage is affecting users across Europe.

Microsoft has since confirmed that it has managed to resolve the issue, saying in a statement: "Some customers, particularly those in Europe and the UK, may have been unable to access services earlier today. Services are fully restored and we thank customers for their patience."

During today's downtime, many disgruntled Office 365 users flocked to Twitter to moan about the fact that they are unable to access their email. We, on the other hand, enjoyed the peace and quiet.

@Office365 Any info on current #outage of #Office365 in Europe?

— Tadej Žlak (@tadejzlak) December 3, 2015

@Office365 Morning, Is the Office 365 portal down as we are not able to access the portal this morning ?
— Dylon Flipflop (@DylanFittock) December 3, 2015

Oh dear #Office365 pic.twitter.com/BfEVqy3yvl

— Sam Perrin (@sam_perrin) December 3, 2015

The issues extended to Azure users too, impacting g services including Web App, Operational Insights, Machine Learning, portal.azure.com and manage.windowsazure.com.

In a note on its website, the firm said: "Starting at approximately 09:00 on 3rd Dec, 2015, customers began experiencing intermittent issues accessing Azure services that use, or have dependencies on Azure Active Directory.

"Engineering teams are actively investigating the root cause of the issue and are developing a mitigation strategy."

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