Microsoft global outage: a message for staff and students

As you may be aware, there is a global outage at Microsoft. This has affected our email and calendar access; this may also affect Teams and Sharepoint but we are monitoring the situation here at Bristol.

We do not anticipate that in-person teaching will be affected. However, our student wellbeing appointment booking service is temporarily unavailable. Advice for students is available on our student support web pages.

For staff, we ask that colleagues communicate through Teams where possible to avoid overloading the email system with messages when the system gets back up and running.

Update at 4pm (13 November)

Microsoft has confirmed its services are continuing to recover. Teaching has not been affected and students are now able to book wellbeing appointments online via the usual online booking system. Please continue to check the IT status web page for updates over the weekend.