Service disruption

Microsoft global outage affecting council email access

Publication date
13 November 2026
Last revised
13 November 2026
Last updated - 14 November 2026, 2.00pm

Following the global outage, Microsoft has now confirmed that affected services, e.g. Outlook and Teams, have fully recovered and the backlog of email messages has been processed. Due to this, Microsoft has now closed down the incident.

Council services are operating as normal.

We apologise for the inconvenience.