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Microsoft is investigating and working on addressing an ongoing outage affecting the company's Outlook webmail service. According to information shared via the company's Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account, Redmond is performing targeted restarts to portions of the infrastructure impacted by a recent change.

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services after customers have reported experiencing connection issues."We're investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services. We've identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps," the Microsoft 365 team said in a Twitter thread. "We've isolated the problem to networking configuration issues, and we're analyzing the best mitigation strategy to address these without causing additional impact."

A new information-stealing malware named 'StrelaStealer' is actively stealing email account credentials from Outlook and Thunderbird, two widely used email clients. StrelaStealer arrives on the victim's system via email attachments, currently ISO files with varying content.

Microsoft is rolling out a fix for a known issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 users and preventing them from scheduling Teams meetings because the option is no longer available on the app's ribbon menu. The Teams Meeting add-in can be found in the Calendar view, and it helps Outlook users to create Teams meetings from Outlook.

Microsoft is working on a fix for ongoing sign-in issues affecting some Outlook for Microsoft 365 customers and preventing them from accessing their accounts. While Microsoft says that the Outlook Team is working on a solution for this known issue, an official workaround is available for those who want to access their accounts until a fix rolls out.

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Microsoft is finally rolling out a fix for an issue known since August and causing Outlook for Microsoft 365 to freeze and crash right after it's opened. "When you start Outlook Desktop, it gets past loading profile and processing, briefly opens, and then stops responding," Microsoft explains.

Microsoft is investigating a known issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 users and preventing them from creating Teams meetings using the app's ribbon menu. The Teams Meeting add-in, as its name says, can be found in the Calendar view and it enables Outlook users to schedule a Teams meeting from Outlook.

Microsoft is investigating customer reports of a known issue causing Outlook for Microsoft 365 to freeze and crash right after opening. According to a new support document published by Redmond on Thursday, these Outlook desktop client crashes will be automatically logged and can be confirmed by checking the Windows Event Viewer Application Log for Event 1000 or Event 1001.

Microsoft says the Outlook email client will crash when opening and reading emails with tables such as Uber receipt emails. "When opening, replying, or forwarding some emails that include complex tables, Outlook stops responding," the company explains in a support document.