Bird (MessageBird) outage, 13 November 2026

Microsoft outage: delays delivering to Outlook, Hotmail and Office 365

Started
Resolved
12 Nov 2026, 20:00 UTC - reported afterwards
Impact
Not stated

Is this still happening?

No. Bird (MessageBird) marked this incident resolved.

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Microsoft has confirmed an incident affecting Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 connectivity in all regions. It’s tracked as EX1550543, and you can follow Microsoft’s updates at https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/referrer=serviceStatusRedirect. Since about 17:30 UTC on November 12, Microsoft’s mail servers have been answering a large share of delivery attempts with temporary errors. This affects Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, MSN and Office 365 recipients. The errors include “451 4.7.0 Temporary server error”, “421 4.3.2 The maximum number of concurrent server connections has exceeded a limit” and “451 4.7.700 PFA agent busy”. The problem is on Microsoft’s side and affects senders across the...

12 Nov 2026, 20:00 UTC

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