Microsoft outage disrupts gambling authority in Mauritius
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Defimedia and La Nouvelle Tribune
Mauritius’s Gambling Regulatory Authority has faced technical difficulties since Friday due to the global Microsoft 365 outage, which is affecting Outlook and SharePoint among other services. The disruption could affect horse racing scheduled for Saturday 14 November, according to Defimedia.
The GRA apologised for the disruptions linked to the outage, which is also affecting Microsoft Teams and Copilot. The incident entered its second day on Friday 13 November, after access difficulties to Exchange Online mailboxes were reported on Thursday evening.
Microsoft initially cited high load on part of its infrastructure before saying that servers had unexpectedly become unavailable. Its teams blocked deployments, redistributed traffic, restarted servers and began rolling back a recent network configuration change. The company has ruled out malicious activity as the cause of the incident at this stage.
Access to emails may fail on Outlook web, desktop and mobile, while meeting scheduling and invitation sending remain disrupted on Teams. Microsoft reports partial recovery in some regions and the addition of capacity to its infrastructure. The company is due to publish a root-cause report after the incident is brought under control.
Teams had already experienced an outage on Thursday between 15:45 and 16:53 Paris time, with message-sending failures in North and South America, then attributed to resource saturation.
