Microsoft Admin Center

User impact: Admins may be unable to access or experience delays accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center Current status: Following our recent mitigation efforts to reroute traffic away from the affected systems, service stability has been restored. We’re continuing to closely monitor service telemetry to confirm full remediation and ensure the service remains healthy.   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 11:30 PM UTC