Consumer platforms officially returned to normal operation at 4:10 p.m. UTC on Friday following an earlier disruption. Although Microsoft 365 enterprise applications are demonstrating sustained recovery, the incident is not yet formally resolved. Microsoft is closely tracking a backlog of accrued email messages that built up during the downtime. Because of the incident's severity, an extended period of system monitoring will continue to determine if additional mitigation is necessary.
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Enterprise customers must wait for email message backlogs to process before the incident…: Enterprise customers must wait for email message backlogs to process before the incident is declared fully resolved.
Extended system monitoring will remain active to verify that no additional mitigative act…: Extended system monitoring will remain active to verify that no additional mitigative actions are required.
Consumer platforms have completely stabilized even as enterprise systems undergo prolonge…: Consumer platforms have completely stabilized even as enterprise systems undergo prolonged technical supervision.
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Nov 13 : Microsoft said its consumer products services had fully recovered at 4:10 p.m. UTC on Friday (1610 GMT), while it was seeing some sustained recovery for its Microsoft 365 enterprise services.
The technology giant said it was "monitoring the backlog of email messages accrued during this event" before considering the issue with the enterprise services resolved.
"Due to the severity of impact this incident caused, we're monitoring for an extended period to ensure no additional mitigative actions are required," Microsoft said in an update on its service status page.
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