Scottish schools, councils and health boards are among those impacted by a worldwide Microsoft outage.
The tech giant is racing to restore services after the outage left users across the globe unable to access emails and Teams, admitting that its efforts to fix the issue were not progressing “as expected”.
The disruption began late on Thursday afternoon, leaving users unable to access several of Microsoft’s most widely used services, with thousands around the world reporting problems sending and receiving emails through Outlook.
Microsoft Teams has also been hit by the disruption, alongside the tech giant’s Copilot AI assistant and several other Microsoft 365 services.
Downdetector, a website that tracks service outages, recorded an increase in reports of problems with Microsoft Teams in the UK at around 6.15pm on Thursday. Meanwhile, more than 130,000 users in the US reported issues with Outlook at the height of the disruption last night.
Scottish councils and health boards are among those affected, including West Lothian Council, Glasgow City Council, Midlothian Council and the City of Edinburgh Council.
Organisations including NHS Grampian and Scottish Water also experienced disruption, while transport operators such as LNER, CalMac and Citylink reported problems accessing their emails.