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Millions of users across the United Kingdom were startled awake to find themselves locked out of their email inboxes as Microsoft Outlook suffered a significant service outage, leaving many unable to access critical communications and disrupting both professional and personal routines. As the...

In the digital era, seamless access to communication platforms is not just a convenience—it's a necessity. On the evening of July 9, 2025, this reality was starkly highlighted as millions worldwide found themselves abruptly cut off from one of the globe’s most relied-upon email services...

Microsoft Outlook, the backbone of digital communication for millions of individuals and organizations globally, suffered a widespread outage that left users frustrated and, in some cases, outright stranded from their essential emails, calendars, and contacts. The disruption reverberated across...

Yes, Microsoft Outlook has experienced a major outage on July 10, 2025, affecting thousands of users across the UK and beyond. Here are the key points: The outage began after midnight and peaked around 6:00 AM BST. According to Down Detector: 61% of users reported login issues. 34% had server...

On the morning of July 10, 2025, Microsoft 365 users worldwide encountered significant disruptions, particularly with Outlook, as they found themselves unable to access emails or log into their accounts. Reports began surfacing around 5:00 AM BST, with outage monitoring service Down Detector...

On July 10, 2025, Microsoft faced a series of service disruptions affecting its Microsoft 365 suite, notably impacting Teams and Outlook. These outages disrupted communication and productivity for users worldwide, highlighting the critical dependence on Microsoft's cloud services. Initial Teams...

In recent hours, a significant and unexpected service disruption has gripped Microsoft Outlook, leaving millions unable to access their emails, contacts, and calendar information—essentials that business professionals, students, and casual users alike depend on daily. The outage, swiftly...

For many IT administrators and enterprise organizations, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is the critical backbone for managing updates across networks of Windows devices. The ability to centrally control the deployment of patches and feature updates, ensure compatibility, and minimize...

Here’s a summary of the issues described in the BornCity blog post "WSUS has synchronization problems (July 9, 2025)": What Happened? Since July 9, 2025, administrators have reported that WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) is unable to synchronize with Microsoft’s update servers. Attempts to...

For IT administrators and businesses deploying Windows Server 2025, the anticipation around the Resilient File System (ReFS) has been a blend of opportunity and frustration. On paper, ReFS stands as Microsoft’s resilient evolution of decades-old NTFS, promising transaction-consistent storage...

For many users relying on cloud-based productivity solutions, Microsoft Forms stands as an indispensable tool within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Its integration with Teams, Excel, and SharePoint makes it a favored choice for educators, businesses, and organizations engaging in quick surveys...

In the predawn hours of a recent Saturday, tens of thousands of Microsoft users awoke to a digital world in flux. Core productivity tools like Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 were suddenly and unexpectedly out of reach for millions across the globe. For many, the incident was more than a...

Microsoft 365 has established itself as the backbone of many organizations’ productivity frameworks, delivering critical tools like Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and Forms as part of a tightly integrated ecosystem. Yet even the best-engineered cloud platforms are not immune to disruption, and...

Microsoft Teams, long the backbone of collaboration in many enterprise environments, recently hit a significant stumbling block on Windows Server platforms, catching IT administrators across the globe off guard and sending ripples through the remote desktop and terminal services community. As...

Microsoft is set to retire the iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in favor of a new Black Screen of Death as part of Windows 11 version 24H2. This change is central to the Windows Resiliency Initiative, sparked by a massive tech failure in July 2024 when a faulty CrowdStrike update crashed over...

Nearly every PC user in the world knows the chilling symbolism of the Windows “Blue Screen of Death,” a harbinger of trouble that can stop entire offices or families in their digital tracks. After more than four decades of persistent—and persistent blue—error screens, Microsoft is turning the...

In a recent blog post titled "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks," Czech developer and penetration tester Miroslav Homer presents a compelling argument about the strategic vulnerabilities organizations face due to heavy reliance on Microsoft products and services. Homer's analysis is particularly...

Microsoft’s June 2025 Patch Tuesday update was meant to address dozens of vulnerabilities and enhance system stability, but Azure and hybrid on-premises administrators quickly discovered a critical side effect: DHCP services on multiple generations of Windows Server began failing, resulting in...

Just days after Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday updates rolled out, system administrators across the globe found themselves embroiled in a scramble to diagnose and mitigate a new threat—not from cybercriminals, but from Redmond itself. Windows Server’s Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)...

The June Patch Tuesday event has traditionally been one of those regular, if sometimes nervy, moments in the IT administrator’s calendar, offering a mix of security fixes and, all too often, unintended side effects. This time, for Windows Server admins around the world, that unease has given way...