Title: Users may experience issues when utilizing multiple Microsoft 365 services User impact: Users may experience issues when utilizing multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Impact includes, but may not be limited to, the below services and scenarios. We will update this list as our understanding of the issue progresses. OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online: -Users may be unable to load or refresh portions of OneDrive and SharePoint, including account and storage information, search results, Favorites, Followed and Shared With Me content, recent files, lists, and news. Some users may also experience delayed or failed file opening, Office policy-label retrieval, OneDrive synchronization, mobile camera upload, and video playback. Users may see partial page failures, missing or stale content, repeated retries, and operation timeouts rather than a complete platform outage. Exchange Online: -Users may be unable to connect to, or experience degraded functionality, with Exchange Online. All connection methods are affected. Microsoft Teams: -Users may experience issues with calendar functionality and search. Users’ presence may be stale and not update automatically or through manual adjustment. User location adjustment may fail. Microsoft Purview: -Users may face intermittent authorization failures across solutions in Purview. Purview admins can’t access the portal. Additionally, in Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, users may see errors when loading Communication Compliance policies and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Communication Compliance policy creation and evaluation may be delayed. Microsoft Defender XDR: -Users may experience intermittent authorization failures across solutions in Defender. Current status: We've identified issues related to a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services which is resulting in the impact outlined above. We've identified a potential remediation and we're performing tests to ensure its efficacy before applying it more broadly. Scope of impact: Users attempting to perform any of the outlined impact scenarios may be affected by this event. Next update by: Monday, August 31, 2026, at 6:30 PM UTC Preliminary root cause: An issue within a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services is resulting in impact. Next update by: Monday, August 31, 2026, at 7:30 PM UTC
Started
15:08 UTC
Duration
Lasted 3d 5h
Source
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Affected components: Microsoft 365 suite, Exchange Online
What happened?
Title: Users may experience issues when utilizing multiple Microsoft 365 services User impact: Users may experience issues when utilizing multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Impact includes, but may not be limited to, the below services and scenarios. We will update this list as our understanding of the issue progresses. OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online: -Users may be unable to load or refresh portions of OneDrive and SharePoint, including account and storage information, search results, Favorites, Followed and Shared With Me content, recent files, lists, and news. Some users may also experience delayed or failed file opening, Office policy-label retrieval, OneDrive synchronization, mobile camera upload, and video playback. Users may see partial page failures, missing or stale content, repeated retries, and operation timeouts rather than a complete platform outage. Exchange Online: -Users may be unable to connect to, or experience degraded functionality, with Exchange Online. All connection methods are affected. Microsoft Teams: -Users may experience issues with calendar functionality and search. Users’ presence may be stale and not update automatically or through manual adjustment. User location adjustment may fail. Microsoft Purview: -Users may face intermittent authorization failures across solutions in Purview. Purview admins can’t access the portal. Additionally, in Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, users may see errors when loading Communication Compliance policies and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Communication Compliance policy creation and evaluation may be delayed. Microsoft Defender XDR: -Users may experience intermittent authorization failures across solutions in Defender. Current status: We've identified issues related to a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services which is resulting in the impact outlined above. We've identified a potential remediation and we're performing tests to ensure its efficacy before applying it more broadly. Scope of impact: Users attempting to perform any of the outlined impact scenarios may be affected by this event. Next update by: Monday, August 31, 2026, at 6:30 PM UTC Preliminary root cause: An issue within a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services is resulting in impact. Next update by: Monday, August 31, 2026, at 7:30 PM UTC
