SLA Credit Watch

Microsoft 365

Governing terms: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services · Status source: https://status.cloud.microsoft/api/posts/m365consumer

This month's ledger (2026-08)

Most SLAs define unavailability narrowly; degraded time is shown but not counted against uptime.

Exchange Online

UptimeDowntimeDegradedStatus
eligibility requires customer contract and telemetry validation

Eligibility is not established by the public status incident. Use the self-service checklist to compare your plan, configuration and telemetry, or optionally request a free review from AllCaps Technologies on the eligibility page.

SharePoint Online

UptimeDowntimeDegradedStatus
eligibility requires customer contract and telemetry validation

Eligibility is not established by the public status incident. Use the self-service checklist to compare your plan, configuration and telemetry, or optionally request a free review from AllCaps Technologies on the eligibility page.

Teams

UptimeDowntimeDegradedStatus
eligibility requires customer contract and telemetry validation

Eligibility is not established by the public status incident. Use the self-service checklist to compare your plan, configuration and telemetry, or optionally request a free review from AllCaps Technologies on the eligibility page.

Claim window and filing channel

Claim window: 28 (end_of_calendar_month_following_incident)

Submit a claim to Microsoft 365/Office 365 customer support (via a support ticket) including a detailed description of the Incident, time and duration of downtime, affected resource names, number/location of affected users, and description of errors.

https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/documents/download/OnlineSvcsConsolidatedSLA(WW)(English)(July_15_2026)(CR).docx · verified 2026-07-16

Claim window: 28 (end_of_calendar_month_following_incident)

Submit a claim to Microsoft 365/Office 365 customer support (via a support ticket) including a detailed description of the Incident, time and duration of downtime, affected resource names, number/location of affected users, and description of errors.

https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/documents/download/OnlineSvcsConsolidatedSLA(WW)(English)(July_15_2026)(CR).docx · verified 2026-07-16

Claim window: 28 (end_of_calendar_month_following_incident)

Submit a claim to Microsoft 365/Office 365 customer support (via a support ticket) including a detailed description of the Incident, time and duration of downtime, affected resource names, number/location of affected users, and description of errors.

https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/documents/download/OnlineSvcsConsolidatedSLA(WW)(English)(July_15_2026)(CR).docx · verified 2026-07-16

Recent incidents (last 90 days)

StartedIncidentImpactStatus
Jul 29, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved
Jul 29, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved
Jul 29, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved
Jul 28, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved
Jul 28, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved
Jul 28, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved
Jul 28, 2026 Users may be unable to send messages after a recipient of a new chat accepts the request degraded resolved

Get outage alerts

When a selected vendor reports a relevant outage, we tell you what evidence to preserve and help you check eligibility. Use the checklist yourself, or optionally request a free review from AllCaps Technologies on the incident's eligibility page. Confirmed contractual alerts include the credit math and filing deadline.

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