N.L. government, City of St. John's experiencing email outage - CBC

A global Microsoft 365 outage is affecting the government of N.L. and the City of St. John's. (Dmytro Tyshchenko/Shutterstock)Social SharingAn issue affecting Microsoft 365 applications has resulted in an email outage for N.L. provincial government and City of St. John's employees.

"Government programs and services that rely on email may be affected, including the sending and receiving of emails," the provincial government said in a social media post on Thursday afternoon.

"Technical teams are working to restore services as quickly as possible."

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The City of St. John's says its email is also affected by the widespread outage.

"If you are attempting to email the city, there may be a delay in response. Microsoft is actively working to resolve the issue," it said in a social media post.

Microsoft said that it was investigating disruptions, notably related to its email and Teams applications.

In updates posted on social media, the company said it was aware of users “experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas.”

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