Determining the service health status
Microsoft provides several ways you can obtain information about the health of various Microsoft 365 services, including the following resources:
- The Service Health Dashboard
- The Service Status page
- The Microsoft 365 Status Twitter feed
The Service Health Dashboard will have the most comprehensive information regarding service health status and availability and should be the resource you use when determining whether you are experiencing a service outage. However, it doesn't provide any text messaging or other alerting capabilities. The Microsoft 365 Status Twitter feed is a good resource for getting notifications.
We will learn more about these tools and methods next.
The Service Health Dashboard
As stated in the previous section, the Service Health Dashboard should be your first step when determining whether your environment is experiencing issues. The Service Health Dashboard contains the current health status...