Over the weekend, a Microsoft outage left millions of users unable to access their Outlook email and other services, CNBC reported.
“We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post Saturday on X.
Services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were reported down as of about 3:30 p.m. ET March 1, 2025. More than 37,000 individuals reported an Outlook outage and roughly 24,000 reported an outage in the tech company’s 365 service, according to Downdetector, while roughly 150 users reported their Teams accounts were down, according to CNBC.
Microsoft later reported that it had identified a code error that caused the outage and was working on a fix; by later that afternoon, the company said on its service health update page that service was restored.
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Today’s Tech, Channel and MSP News
1. Eficode names new head of managed services: Tony Hendrell has been appointed the Head of Managed Services for Eficode and a member of the Eficode Group management team. Eficode provides consulting and Eficode ROOT Managed DevOps platform, training and license management in Europe, the UK, and the U.S. Eficode works with leading DevOps and cloud technology partners, including Atlassian, GitHub, GitLab, AWS, and Microsoft. Hendrell brings over 20 years of experience in sales leadership, strategic partnerships, business development, and senior management roles in the technology industry. Before joining Eficode, he led Knowit Group’s Managed Services Business across six Northern European countries and previously managed Cybercom Group’s AWS Business Group. He is based in Helsinki, Finland. Congratulations!
2. ClearScale, Matilda Cloud offer VMware migration services: AWS consulting partner ClearScale and Matilda Cloud are partnering to deliver VMware migration assessments and migration solutions, the companies announced today. The offerings are aimed at simplifying VMware workload migrations to AWS. Matilda Cloud is an AWS-preferred tool for VMware assessments and an AWS-certified migration partner, and ClearScale is a professional services company and AWS Premier Tier Services Partner. By combining expertise in workload migrations, cloud-native systems integration, strategic consulting, modernization, application development, data, and AI to empower leaders in solving their most critical business challenges and positioning their organizations for growth.
3. ArmorCode launches new apps in ServiceNow store: AI-powered application security posture management firm ArmorCode today announced new apps available in the ServiceNow store. The integrations expand ArmorCode's capabilities into ServiceNow Security Operations, building on existing integrations with ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for ingesting asset inventory and ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) for ticketing workflows. This enables the application of AI-driven analytics to automatically correlate, deduplicate, and prioritize vulnerabilities.
4. Rubrik, Pure Storage partnership for unstructured data management: Rubrik and Pure Storage have partnered to deliver a reference architecture solution that enables organizations to unify, manage, and secure unstructured data at scale, the companies said in a statement. The partnership pairs Pure Storage's high-performance storage with Rubrik's data protection and cyber resilience solutions.
5. Microsoft to hang up Skype: Microsoft is closing down Skype, the two-decades-old internet calling service it acquired for $8.5 billion in 2011. By shutting down Skype, Microsoft will be able to focus on its Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the office software giant said on Friday. The service's last day will be May 5, 2025.
