Microsoft Admin Center

User impact: Admins may have been unable to access or experience delays accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center Final status: We’ve validated via our monitoring telemetry that service has been restored.   Scope of impact: Admins hosted in US Central attempting to access the Microsoft 365 admin center may have been impacted.   Start Time: Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 6:30 PM UTC   End Time: Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 10:33 PM UTC   Preliminary root cause: A subset of infrastructure in the Central US datacenter entered a degraded state, resulting in disruptions to request handling.   Next steps: - We’re continuing our analysis of the underlying systems to understand the conditions that led to this issue and to implement safeguards that help prevent recurrence.   We'll provide a preliminary Post-Incident Report within two business days and a final Post-Incident Report within five business days.