traffic rebalancing

The tag 'traffic rebalancing' on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about network traffic redistribution during service disruptions, particularly in Microsoft 365 environments. A notable thread details a January 2026 outage affecting Outlook, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Defender, and Purview, where engineers performed traffic rebalancing to restore service after nearly ten hours of intermittent availability. The content focuses on how traffic rebalancing is used as a remediation technique during large-scale cloud service incidents, highlighting its role in mitigating performance degradation and restoring normal operations. This tag is relevant for IT professionals and system administrators troubleshooting connectivity or performance issues in Microsoft 365 services.