Microsoft outage hits North Northamptonshire Council , Kettering General Hospital and Northamptonshire Police
Police, hospital and council systems in Northamptonshire are among those hit by the worldwide Microsoft outage this morning.
Microsoft engineers have been working since late last night to fix ‘connectivity’ issues that have caused issues across the world.
The tech troubles are affecting Teams, Co-pilot and Outlook, which are used by millions of businesses and organisations who have been left unable to communicate effectively on arrival at work this morning.
Northamptonshire Police say the outage is affecting some of their online forms and have asked locals to call 999 in an emergency, and 101 in a non-emergency, instead of making reports online.
A statement on Kettering General Hospital’s website said: “We are currently experiencing disruption to some of our systems due to the global Microsoft outage.
“Patients can still contact us by phone or our website but our teams may take a little longer than normal to respond. If you have an appointment, please do still attend.
“Thank you for your patience while Microsoft work to fix this issue.”
We are prepared for such an incident through business continuity plans
And North Northamptonshire Council leader Martin Griffiths and CEO Adele Wylie contacted staff and elected members early this morning to let them know they may have systems issues this morning,
They were told: “You may have seen there is a major outage affecting Microsoft which means that we are unable to send, receive or load emails and some systems are affected.
“We are prepared for such an incident through business continuity plans and officers are standing up the relevant meetings to respond ASAP.
“We will update you once we are back online.”
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