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Exchange Online outage linked to core authentication configuration, Microsoft manually resets servers
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Microsoft is investigating a widespread Exchange Online outage, tracked as incident EX1464935, and has identified a core authentication configuration shared across multiple internal services as the suspected cause.
Organizations relying on Exchange Online for both mail transport and identity checks face compound failures, where authentication errors block sign-in while already-authenticated sessions still experience degraded mailbox operations. A shared authentication configuration across internal services means a single misconfiguration cascades across otherwise separate user-facing functions, making the outage broader and remediation slower.
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Microsoft narrowed the suspected cause to a core authentication configuration used by multiple internal Exchange Online services.
Remediation involves manually testing and resetting configurations on individual servers rather than applying a platform-wide fix.
Microsoft has not disclosed the affected regions, the number of impacted tenants, or a recovery timeline.
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