Microsoft Outage Affecting Barracuda Products in All Regions

Incident Report for Barracuda Networks

Update

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 20:25 UTC

Update

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 20:24 UTC

Monitoring

A widespread Microsoft 365 and Outlook outage is impacting thousands of users across the Americas and globally. As such, Barracuda functionality that relies on MSFT integrations are delayed. We are closely monitoring the situation.

• Affected Services: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Online mailboxes, Microsoft 365 connectivity, and temporary issues with Microsoft Teams

• Cause: Microsoft has confirmed connectivity errors on a portion of its Exchange Online infrastructure and noted unusually high demand across multiple regions

• Current Status: Engineers are redistributing connection traffic across global infrastructure to balance the load and mitigate the impact, tracked under incident EX1550543 in the Microsoft 365 admin center
Posted Nov 12, 2026 - 19:10 UTC
This incident affects: Cloud Archiving Service (Web Interface, End-user Access, Mail Processing, Exchange Integration, PST Import, Retention), Web Security Service (Management Web UI, Traffic Processing, WSA Service Test), Backup Service (Web Interface, Email Alerts / Reports, Offsite Transfers), Corporate Website (Campus, Blog, www, Community), CloudGen Firewall (Advanced Threat Protection, Web Categorization Service, Download Portal, Licensing, Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD)), WAF Active DDoS Prevention Service (Management Web UI, Traffic Flow), Cloud to Cloud Backup (Web Interface, Office 365 Integration, Cloud to Cloud Backups), Content Shield (US - Web Interface, US - Content Filtering, EU - Web Interface, EU - Content Filtering), WAF-as-a-Service (Configuration Propagation, Traffic Processing, Management Web UI, Logging), Vulnerability Manager/Vulnerability Remediation Service (User Interface, Scan Engine), Impersonation Protection (formerly Sentinel) (Email Processing, Dashboard UI), Incident Response (Dashboard UI, Email Processing), SecureEdge (Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD), Configuration Service, Advanced Threat Protection, Web Categorization Service, Download Portal, Licensing, Edge Service EMEA, Edge Service US, Edge Service APAC, Identity Management, Reporting Service EU, Access POP UK South, Access POP AUS East, Access POP EU West, Access POP US East 1, Access POP US West 2, Access POP Austria East, Access POP India Central, Access POP Germany West, Access POP US Central, Access POP Brazil South, Access POP Switzerland, Access POP Japan, Access POP Spain, Access POP France, Access POP Italy, Access POP Canada, Access POP Singapore, Access POP Sweden, Reporting Service US, Access POP Northern Europe), CloudGen Access (API EU, API US, Enterprise Console EU, Enterprise Console US), XDR (XDR Dashboard, XDR Service), Activation Services, Authentication Services, Appliance Updates, BarracudaCentral.org, Cloud Control, Cloud Protection Layer for ESG, Data Inspector, ECHOplatform, Security Awareness Training, Support Phone System, Message Archiver (Cloud Replication, Cloud Federated Search), View - Cloud Email Archive (EMEA | nest1-view-eu | viewarchive.co.uk, APAC | nest1-view-au | au.viewarchive.com, US | nest1-view-us | viewarchive.com, US | im1-view-us |, US | rack1-view-us |), Email Security Gateway Appliance (Email Processing), BarracudaONE (BarracudaONE Web App), and Email Gateway Defense (Mail Delivery, User Interface).