Oregon businesses and universities lost access to email and other essential workplace services Thursday as a Microsoft 365 failure interrupted communications worldwide, leaving organizations working through service disruptions and delayed messages into Friday.
The Grants Pass Tribune was among the businesses affected November 12. Across workplaces dependent on Microsoft’s systems, employees encountered inaccessible inboxes, failed connections and interruptions to applications used to communicate and coordinate daily operations.
Microsoft said Friday that it had corrected the underlying technical problem, but restoration remained underway for some customers and regions. Email access was improving, and accumulated messages were moving through the system, though intermittent failures and delivery delays persisted…