{"id":99419,"date":"2026-11-14T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99419"},"modified":"2026-11-14T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:11:03","slug":"singapore-governments-outlook-services-fully-restored-after-global-microsoft-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99419","title":{"rendered":"Singapore government\u2019s Outlook services fully restored after global Microsoft outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Microsoft Outlook services for Singapore&#8217;s government were fully restored on Friday (Nov 13) night after they were hit by a major global outage affecting the tech giant\u2019s products.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption, which lasted over 24 hours, knocked out Microsoft products, including Outlook and Teams, in 74 countries and territories, according to outage tracker Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p><span>Microsoft said on Saturday that services were fully recovered across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) told CNA on Saturday that the government\u2019s Microsoft Outlook services had been fully restored since 11pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank members of the public for their patience and understanding,\u201d a GovTech spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>While some Singapore government systems, including email, were affected on Friday, emergency services remained fully operational. Singpass was also unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>A Microsoft spokesperson told CNA, the outage was caused by a technical issue and was not related to &#8220;cyber or AI\/agents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the scale of demand, we restored services gradually. While this took longer, it helped ensure a stable restoration,&#8221; they said, adding that the company would provide a full post-incident report after reviewing what happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/singapore-government-microsoft-outlook-services-fully-restored-6551261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Microsoft Outlook services for Singapore&#8217;s government were fully restored on Friday (Nov 13) night after they were hit by a major global outage affecting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2608,899,8364,3576,9968,9325,7080,492,22],"class_list":["post-99419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-fully","tag-global","tag-governments","tag-microsoft","tag-outage","tag-outlook","tag-restored","tag-services","tag-singapore","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}