Exchange Online & Outlook.com Services

On July 18, 2022, at ~9:55 AM EST, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue with users accessing or experiencing degraded functionality when using Exchange Online and outlook.com services.

For IT pros or system admins with Microsoft Admin cCnter access, the incident numbers for further details were EX401976 and OL401977.

Less than an hour later later, Microsoft provided an update on the issues:

And with their final message, Microsoft confirmed that the problem was resolved.

The Importance of Office 365 Monitoring

In a cloud-world, outages are bound to happen. While Microsoft is responsible for restoring service during outages, IT needs to take ownership of their environment and user experience. It is crucial to have greater visibility into business impacts during a service outage the moment it happens.

ENow’s Office 365 Monitoring and Reporting solution enables IT Pros to pinpoint the exact services effected and root cause of the issues an organization is experiencing during a service outage by providing:

• The ability to monitor networks and entire environments in one place with ENow’s OneLook dashboard which makes identifying a problem fast and easy without having to scramble through Twitter and the Service Health Dashboard looking for answers.
• A full picture of all services and subset of services affected during an outage with ENow’s remote probes which covers several Office 365 apps and other cloud-based collaboration services.

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