1:30 p.m. Update: Microsoft has informed us that they believe the underlying issue has been addressed. The Division of Information Technology (IT) will continue to monitor. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience while this issue was resolved.
Kent State classes, work schedules and activities remain in effect for Friday during the worldwide outage of several Microsoft services.
The Division of Information Technology (IT) is observing signs of service recovery.
However, we are not issuing an all clear at this time and recommend that calendaring activities such as sending or accepting invites be held until an all clear is issued.
- Kent State classes, work schedules and activities remain in effect for Friday during the worldwide outage of several Microsoft services.
- Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services.
- We remain in direct contact with Microsoft as they continue investigating the issue. Microsoft is implementing additional measures and testing potential fixes to restore service stability. They have shared that they plan on extending the email timeout window to 48 hours.
- We are currently monitoring the situation and Microsoft update. At this time, we have no evidence of malicious activity associated with this incident. We will continue to treat this with urgency until full mitigation.
- Microsoft has shared that they have no evidence of malicious activity.
Watch the Kent State Advisory page for updates.
