Title: Some users may not receive results when performing searches in SharePoint Online User impact: Users may not receive results when performing searches in SharePoint Online. Current status: We've confirmed through monitoring service health telemetry that our continued efforts to redirect, rebalance, and optimize traffic within the subset of affected infrastructure have successfully remediated impact. We're reaching out to a subset of affected users to conduct additional testing and validate that this issue is resolved. Scope of impact: Some users performing searches in SharePoint Online may be impacted by this event. This section may be updated as our investigation continues. Start time: Monday, April 20, 2026, at 12:00 AM UTC Root cause: An unexpected increase in request traffic and search request queuing is causing a subset of service infrastructure that processes SharePoint Online search requests to enter a suboptimal state, resulting in impact. Next update by: Monday, May 11, 2026, at 8:00 PM UTC
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