ESET incident

MS Exchange Online email scanning delayed in US and EU

Resolved after 3 days 12 hours, affecting Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, Japan and Americas, Oceania, on September 14, 2026.

monitoring Sep 16, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC

The service should be restored in both regions. We continue to monitor the behavior.

Started
Sep 14, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 18, 2026, 08:08 AM UTC
Duration
3d 12h
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 14, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC

Affected components

Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, JapanAmericas, Oceania

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 14, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing a delay in MS Exchange Online email scanning that is estimated to 10-30 minutes. To mitigate the issue, the MailScanService was restarted on the SFC machines. We are currently waiting for the new TTL settings to take full effect and for the scanning process to return to normal operation. The root cause of the issue has not yet been identified and is currently under investigation.

  2. investigating Sep 15, 2026, 03:40 AM UTC

    Scanning process had returned to normal operation. We'll monitor performance during work hours in case the issue reoccurs.

  3. identified Sep 15, 2026, 08:06 AM UTC

    Scanning process had returned to normal operation.

  4. monitoring Sep 15, 2026, 08:12 AM UTC

    The scanning process has returned to normal operation. We will continue to monitor performance in case the issue reoccurs.

  5. investigating Sep 15, 2026, 07:39 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing a delay in MS Exchange Online email scanning that is estimated to 10-30 minutes. EU and US regions are affected. To mitigate the issue, the MailScanService was restarted on the SFC machines. The root cause of the issue has not yet been identified and is currently under investigation.

  6. identified Sep 16, 2026, 04:14 AM UTC

    US environment should not be affected anymore. Mail are processing without any delay. EU region still affected.

  7. monitoring Sep 16, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC

    The service should be restored in both regions. We continue to monitor the behavior.

  8. resolved Sep 18, 2026, 08:08 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved.

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