Microsoft Outlook appeared to be suffering a major outage Thursday, with more than 130,000 reports of issues according to Downdetector as of 1:15 p.m. ET.

Other Microsoft services also seemed to be down, including Microsoft 365, which saw nearly 50,000 reports on Downdetector. Microsoft’s AI assistant and chatbot, Copilot, was also down.

Microsoft’s service status page at one point appeared not to be loading. CNET has reached out to Microsoft for more information.

Microsoft reports in a new update posted just before noon PT that the company is “testing a configuration change to address a problem that’s causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable.”

The company says, “we’ve initiated a restart of all affected servers and are monitoring health as they return to service.”

Or, as one X user noted, “so basically you’re turning it off and turning it back on.”

The latest from Microsoft’s status page is that the company is trying a few things to try to fix the problem… or at least keep it from getting worse: “As a precaution, we’ve paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We’ve also moved traffic for some services off the affected infrastructure to further reduce load, with additional traffic moves in progress.”

The r/Outlook subreddit is busy, even if the emails are not flying.

In one thread , users weighed whether an Outlook outage was the “adult version of a snow day” and discussed… what’s for lunch.

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