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Microsoft customers from all over the world reported significant issues with access to critical functions.  In the United States, several [911 Emergency reporting facilities](https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/911-systems-nationwide-suffer-monday-night-outage/5O76NQY3GZC4NLXKEYXWFVMCII/) from Atlanta, Georgia to Tucson, Arizona were down.  In addition to emergency services, virtual learning in colleges and [public schools](https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/education/article246079050.html) took a major hit as students, teachers, and administrators all over North America were forced to stop working. **If your organization was affected by the outage Monday, September 28th, you may be entitled to compensation via service credits to your account.** In order to claim SLA / outage credits, you must contact your Microsoft account sales rep and/ or Technical Account Manager, and, you must be able to demonstrate via evidence such as internal logs, help desk tickets, etc., that you were affected by the outage and the duration and severity.  No, you can’t simply point to a press article or stats from a site like Downdetector.com, sadly. 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