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Microsoft Services Disruption

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 All day
  • Description
    <p><b>Impact:</b><b></b></p><p>Some Microsoft services—including Microsoft.com, MyApps, and Microsoft 365 tools such as Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive—remain intermittently unavailable. URI services that rely on single sign-on (SSO) may also be affected.</p><p><b>Cause:</b><b></b></p><p>Microsoft has confirmed the issue was caused by an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD), affecting service availability worldwide.</p><p><b>Resolution:</b><b></b></p><p>Microsoft reports that the AFD service is now operating at <strong>over 98% availability</strong>. Most users and services are seeing significant improvement, but Microsoft is still working on <strong>tail-end recovery</strong> for remaining affected systems.<br><br>Full mitigation is now expected by <strong>8:40 p.m. EDT</strong> (00:40 UTC on October 30). Microsoft will provide earlier confirmation if recovery is completed sooner.</p><p>View current service status: <a href="https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status" target="_blank">azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status</a></p><p><b>Contact:</b><b></b></p><p>For questions or assistance, please contact <a href="mailto:helpdesk@uri.edu" target="_blank"><b>helpdesk@uri.edu</b></a>.</p>

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