By TechRepublic Staff
Publication Date: 2026-02-10 20:53:00
Microsoft 365 going down again is starting to feel less like breaking news and more like a recurring calendar invite no one asked for. Unfortunately for IT admins across North America, this one came with a locked door to the control room.
On Feb. 10, Microsoft confirmed an outage that took down the Microsoft 365 admin center for many North American business and enterprise customers, leaving administrators unable to access or fully use the portal used to manage users, services, and settings.
Some admins were completely blocked from signing in, while others reported degraded functionality after logging in. Microsoft acknowledged the incident and said engineers were investigating telemetry and diagnostic data to determine the root cause.
The news comes just weeks after an eight-hour Microsoft outage left thousands without email access.
What happened with the Microsoft 365 outage
According to a report by BleepingComputer, Microsoft initially flagged the issue after reports…
