{
  "id": "2026-01-22-yale-university-microsoft-outage",
  "slug": "yale-university-microsoft-outage-2026-01-22",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Yale University",
    "shortName": "Yale",
    "state": "CT",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Yale Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-01-22",
    "type": "it-outage",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Microsoft outage of Email, Teams, and OneDrive",
    "headlinePublic": "Microsoft outage of Email, Teams, and OneDrive",
    "summary": "Yale [issued three Yale ALERT products](https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020300id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-2) after Microsoft reported reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint on January 22, 2026.",
    "outcome": "No estimated time of resolution in the recovered products. Live Drupal nodes later unpublished (HTTP 403). Recovered from Wayback id_ snapshots."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "channel": "email",
      "timestamp": "2026-01-22T19:22:03-05:00",
      "verbatimText": "This is a Yale ALERT. Today is 01-22-2026 at 19:20. \n\nMicrosoft is reporting reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint. No estimated time of resolution. Check ITS Status Page for further updates.\n\nhttps://yale.service.nowcom/it?id=itsystemstatus\n\n Visit http://emergency.yale.edu for additional information and updates.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020300id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-2",
      "sourceDescription": "Yale ALERT outage-2 Wayback id_ snapshot",
      "annotations": [
        "seq 1 of 3. Dual-curl Wayback id_ 20260123020300 decompressed HTML byte-identical 50022 bytes. Preserve source typo yale.service.nowcom. Title chrome Yale Alert Outage - excluded. Live node 403 unpublished.",
        "Product boundary: This is a Yale ALERT through Visit http://emergency.yale.edu for additional information and updates."
      ],
      "characterCount": 355
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "channel": "email",
      "timestamp": "2026-01-22T19:34:03-05:00",
      "verbatimText": "This is a Yale ALERT. Today is 01-22-2026 at 19:33. \n\nMicrosoft is reporting reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint. No estimated time of resolution. Check ITS Status Page for further updates.\n\nMicrosoft is reporting reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint. No estimated time of resolution. Check ITS Status Page for further updates.\n\nMicrosoft is reporting reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint. No estimated time of resolution. Check ITS Status Page for further updates.\n\nMicrosoft is reporting reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint. No estimated time of resolution. Check ITS Status Page for further updates.\n\nhttps://yale.service-now.com/it?id=it_system_status\n\n Visit http://emergency.yale.edu for additional information and updates.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020325id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-3",
      "sourceDescription": "Yale ALERT outage-3 Wayback id_ snapshot",
      "annotations": [
        "seq 2 of 3. Dual-curl Wayback id_ 20260123020325 HTML byte-identical 50583 bytes. Microsoft reduced-functionality paragraph published four times; transcribed as published. Live node 403 unpublished."
      ],
      "characterCount": 895
    },
    {
      "sequence": 3,
      "type": "update",
      "channel": "email",
      "timestamp": "2026-01-22T19:58:03-05:00",
      "verbatimText": "This is a Yale ALERT. Today is January 22nd at 7:54pm. Microsoft is reporting reduced functionality nationwide across Email, Teams, OneDrive and Sharepoint. No estimated time of resolution. Check ITS Status Page for further updates:  https://yale.service-now.com/it?id=it_system_status",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020316id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-4",
      "sourceDescription": "Yale ALERT outage-4 Wayback id_ snapshot",
      "annotations": [
        "seq 3 of 3. Dual-curl Wayback id_ 20260123020316 HTML byte-identical 49897 bytes. Two spaces before the ITS URL preserved. Live node 403 unpublished."
      ],
      "characterCount": 285
    }
  ],
  "context": "Yale posts Yale ALERT products at [emergency.yale.edu](https://emergency.yale.edu/). Live Drupal nodes for this outage are unpublished (HTTP 403). Official products recovered from Wayback id_ snapshots of [outage-2](https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020300id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-2), [outage-3](https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020325id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-3), and [outage-4](https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020316id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-4).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Three official Yale ALERT products for a nationwide Microsoft Email/Teams/OneDrive/SharePoint outage, recovered from Wayback after live nodes 403."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Yale ALERT outage-2 (Wayback id_)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020300id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-2",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-21",
      "archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020300id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-2",
      "archiveNotes": "Live emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-2 HTTP 403 unpublished; Wayback id_ 20260123020300 recovered"
    },
    {
      "title": "Yale ALERT outage-3 (Wayback id_)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020325id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-3",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-21",
      "archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020325id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-3",
      "archiveNotes": "Live 403; Wayback id_ 20260123020325"
    },
    {
      "title": "Yale ALERT outage-4 (Wayback id_)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020316id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-4",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-21",
      "archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260123020316id_/https://emergency.yale.edu/yale-alert-outage-4",
      "archiveNotes": "Live 403; Wayback id_ 20260123020316"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-r1",
    "connecticut",
    "yale",
    "it-outage",
    "ivy"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-09-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}