Having Issues ??? Please Help !!

An active Microsoft Outlook disruption is affecting some Outlook.com and Hotmail sign-ins today, November 12, 2026, but Microsoft has not published a reliable restoration time. ^1^

What to do now

1. Check Microsoft’s Service Health Status page, which Microsoft recommends for Outlook.com access problems. ^2^
2. If Outlook.com is not shown as healthy, wait and retry later. Microsoft’s Hotmail guidance specifically says to wait until the service is operating normally when status is not green. ^3^
3. Avoid repeatedly changing your password, removing the account, or reinstalling Outlook while the service incident continues. Those actions will not repair a server-side outage.

If service health becomes normal but sign-in still fails

Use Microsoft’s sign-in troubleshooter from the Hotmail support page. Your Hotmail password is the same as your Microsoft account password. ^3^

If the account reports that it is blocked or requests identity verification, follow the corresponding recovery option instead; that indicates an account-specific sign-in issue rather than the general outage.

References

1. Microsoft's Outlook email hit by new outage | TechCrunch
2. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues on Outlook.com | Microsoft Support
3. How to sign in to Hotmail | Microsoft Support