Colleagues,

You may be aware from press coverage that Microsoft is currently experiencing a worldwide outage of some of its services.

Outlook email

This outage is impacting access to Outlook email, sending and receiving, both on desktop and mobile. Please do not rely on email for urgent or critical contact- use telephone or Teams instead. At this present time, Teams is operational and can be used as an alternative communication method.

Systems that use email notifications

For any system that relies on email notifications to alert you to actions, please check these systems more frequently than normal.

Business continuity

Services should initiate their business continuity procedures, especially where delays to email information could impact critical services.

Microsoft continues to work on a solution to this issue, and we will keep you informed as and when we receive updates.

Thank you for your co-operation on this issue.

This message will be shared to relevant Teams groups, the Intranet, Viva Engage and other management communication channels.