Microsoft services failure is also affecting Executive members, who are without Outlook access, has found News to Minute. However, the rulers are resorting to other forms and channels of communication.
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13/11/2026
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News to Minute, Lusa
A global failure in Microsoft 365 services is also affecting members of the Portuguese Government, who are without Outlook access, you know News to Minutes.
O News to Minutes knows that despite the constraints, the rulers are not undisputed, being resorting to other forms and channels of communication.
Meanwhile, the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (SPMS) confirmed that the global failure is also affecting entities under the Ministry of Health and said it is working to restore services as soon as possible.
In response to Lusa, source of SPMS said that services are monitoring the situation and “working in conjunction with Microsoft, with a view to restoring the affected services as soon as possible”, but without specifying the specific areas affected.
The global failure in Microsoft services on Thursday is affecting, among others, the access of tens of thousands of users around the world to the Outlook e-mail service or Teams, confirmed the company, which ruled out the possibility of cyberattack.
Among the potentially affected Microsoft 365 services are Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online or Microsoft Copilot 365.
Microsoft has admitted that the measures to resolve the global failure are not working “as expected” and has ensured that it is looking for alternatives.