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MS Exchange Online email scanning delayed in US and EU

Incident Report for ESET

Resolved

The issue has been resolved.
Posted Sep 18, 2026 - 10:08 CEST

Monitoring

The service should be restored in both regions. We continue to monitor the behavior.
Posted Sep 16, 2026 - 11:08 CEST

Identified

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

EU region still affected.
Posted Sep 16, 2026 - 06:14 CEST

Investigating

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.
Posted Sep 15, 2026 - 21:39 CEST

Monitoring

The scanning process has returned to normal operation. We will continue to monitor performance in case the issue reoccurs.
Posted Sep 15, 2026 - 10:12 CEST

Identified

Scanning process had returned to normal operation.
Posted Sep 15, 2026 - 10:06 CEST

Update

Scanning process had returned to normal operation.

We'll monitor performance during work hours in case the issue reoccurs.
Posted Sep 15, 2026 - 05:40 CEST

Investigating

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.
Posted Sep 14, 2026 - 21:29 CEST
This incident affected: ESET Cloud Office Security - Microsoft 365 (Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, Japan, Americas, Oceania).