Microsoft Admin Center

User impact: Admins may be unable to access or experience delays accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center Current status: We’ve identified an issue affecting a portion of the service and are actively mitigating impact by rerouting traffic away from affected systems. This action is helping to stabilize the service while we continue investigating the underlying issue. We’re closely monitoring service health as these changes take effect and will provide further updates as more information becomes available.   Scope of impact: Admins hosted in US Central attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center may be impacted. This information may be updated as our investigation continues. Start Time: Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 6:30 PM UTC   Preliminary root cause: A subset of infrastructure in the Central US datacenter entered an unexpected degraded state, resulting in disruptions to request handling.   Next update by: Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 11:00 PM UTC