Outlook email accounts for University of Louisville students, faculty and staff were inaccessible Thursday afternoon and evening during a widespread Microsoft outage. Issues with Outlook reportedly started at around 1 p.m., with the website still being down as of 8 p.m.
Two U of L Information Technology Services alert were sent out to U of L community members at 2:29 p.m. and 2:45 p.m.
The second message addressed specific outages.
“ITS Alert: Global Microsoft 365 outage impacting U of L email and apps. We will update when restored.”
Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages, lists that 130,000 users reported Outlook outages at 1:15 p.m. At 5:46 p.m., 39,000 thousand still reported the website being down…