Doncaster Council and NHS hit by global Microsoft outage
Schools, businesses and shops have all been impacted
Doncaster Council, the NHS and schools, businesses and shops have all been hit by a global Microsoft outage, as the firm battles to restore its systems.
The outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot with users all over the world impacted.
City of Doncaster Council is among those impacted and a spokesperson said: “There is a global service outage affecting Microsoft Email and other systems
“You may have seen in the news that there is a Global Service Outage for some Microsoft systems, this is currently affecting our emails which are responding very slowly.
“We apologise for any inconvenience and will respond to your requests as soon as we are able to do so.”
The outage is also understood to be impacting the NHS locally while schools have also reported issues, with parents urged to make contact with schools via phone and not email.
UK Parliament says "alternative communication arrangements are in place" while many businesses and home users have also been impacted.
The outage started on Thursday, with monitoring website Downdetector seeing problems reported in more than 70 countries
Microsoft has said it's seeing "early signs of stabilisation", but services haven't "yet returned to normal".
Earlier, it said the issue wasn't caused by a cyber-security breach
Thousands worldwide have reported they are unable to send and receive emails through Outlook.
Teams has also been affected for many, with the tech giant’s Copilot AI assistant and other Microsoft 365 services also disrupted.
Problems were flagged from a range of countries, including the UK, US, India and New Zealand.