Latest from Microsoft:
"User impact: Users may be seeing degraded service functionality or be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.
More info: Some of the impacted service functions include, but may not be limited to:
- Sending and receiving email through Exchange Online, including notification email from Microsoft Viva Engage as well as subscription email for Microsoft Fabric users. Users may be receiving a "451 4.3.2 temporary server issue" error message when attempting to send or receive email through Outlook.
- Collecting message traces in Exchange Online.
- Searching within SharePoint Online, Microsoft OneDrive, and/or Microsoft Teams.
- Accessing the service portals, including Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender XDR, and the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- Creating chats, meetings, teams, channels or adding members in Microsoft Teams. Additionally, some users may be intermittently unable to create breakout rooms or Microsoft Teams live events.
- Receiving presence or location information in Microsoft Teams.
- Existing or new meeting options for Facilitator in Teams may not be honored.
- Applying and managing sensitivity labels, interactive operations on reports, and artifacts with sensitivity labels in Microsoft Fabric.
- Print registration and printer jobs may fail in Universal Print.
Current status: During our ongoing efforts to rebalance traffic across the region, we introduced a targeted load balancing configuration change intended to expedite the recovery process, which incidentally introduced additional traffic imbalances associated with persistent impact for a portion of the affected infrastructure. We're remedying our load balancing configurations while, in parallel, reviewing the viability of expediting our ongoing incremental rebalancing and recovery efforts.
Scope of impact: Any users served through an affected section of service infrastructure in the North America region may be intermittently impacted.
Root cause: A portion of dependent service infrastructure in the North America region isn't processing traffic as expected.
Next update by: Friday, January 23, 2026, at 12:30 AM UTC"
