Excel Stock Price Server Down

It's still down. Any updates ?

I have been having the same issue since Jan 1st. This is not a good start for 2026. I need my stocks to update in Excel. Come on Microsoft what the hell am I paying a monthly subscription for?

I too have the same problem--started yesterday the 1st. Agreed, "Not a Good Start to 2026!"

Not a good look for Microsoft for sure. With all these AI and Cloud investments, you would think they can figure it out faster than 48 hours...

This would be shurggable if it happened in February or August .... but on the first day of a new year, many people like to "capture" data for comparison throughout the year. Given the server will now be grabbing prices from a later date, this is less-than-optimal. I am VERY frustrated about this.

Issue same in India too as backup started to use google finance to pull data to excel

Issue in OneDrive too , photos does not show moments and uploading takes lot of time

I have the same problem, super annoying.

Jan 3rd: still not functioning. I just spent an hour online with Microsoft Support. First comment was that "this is a known issue, that has now been resolved".
Not for my spreadsheets, I replied!
Support then ran me through repairing my M365 installation, as this had been given to them as the solution.
Nope.
Issue escalated (to add to the thousands already reported...)

It appears Microsoft made a change to the auto-refresh process for the start of the year, and maybe that change did not deliver the promise!
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Not working yet for me either. Clearly it has not been resolved.

absolute rubbish support team

Here is my workaround. It seems to work but folks here can weigh and tell me if I've gone off track.

I created a Google Sheets doc called My Stock Prices.

Column A is the ticker i.e. SPY, AAPL, MSFT. This column should be in the same order that you have in your Excel doc. Don't copy/paste from Excel, just retype the tickers.

Column B is =GOOGLEFINANCE(A1, "price")... drag down to copy formula for each stock ticker.

File > Setting > Calculation > Recalculation = On Change

File > Share > Publish to web > make sure that automatically republish when changes are made is checked > Publish > copy URL

In Excel create a new tab (I named the tab "Google Sheet").

In that new, blank tab Data > Get Data > From Other Sources > From Web > paste URL

Data from Google Sheets gets pulled in. I created a new, separate tab for this because I don't know how to just pull a cell from Google Sheets (or if that's even possible) so I just pulled in the whole sheet to a new tab and then did the next step below.

In the original Excel tab's cell, replace the non-working query (i.e. =A1.Price) that was pulling in stock prices from the MS server with ='Google Sheet'!B2 (it's B2 instead of B1 because it imported a header that I didn't bother to delete. Now instead of the closing price from 12/31/25 for SPY, AAPL, MSFT etc it should pull in the closing price from 1/2/26.

Data > Queries & Connections > dialog box pops up on right side of screen > right click on the query > Properties > click on Refresh every xx minutes (change to however frequently you want it to update) > click on Refresh data when opening the file > OK

Important! Google Sheet must be open for it to update so just leave it open while market is open and stock prices are changing for intraday updates. The values in the cell with the price should start updating when the market opens 1/5/26.

That's it. Hope this works. I guess I'll find out 1/5/26.

NS

This is definitely getting disgusting, it's been down for far too long with no timeline to be back up, if ever.

The server is the problem. Dancing around the issue isn’t helping. Hopefully Google will develop an alternative.

I got an email and followed the link. I read the article and tried the setup instructions but still get the server temporarily not available message. Clearly the message writer never verified the instructions herself. Thankfully Google works great and I was able to close out the year. If I didn't have so much VB in my stock tracking spreadsheet I would move to that platform.

My Mac excel version is 16.104 (25121423) which is clearly behind 16.57 but it won't update, which the writer says is not my fault because they roll the upgrades out slowly.

Very frustrating and the lack of accurate communications is worrying.

For me it looks like STOCKHISTORY is not working, I can retrieve current prices. If I want to find MAE or MFE from entry until today, that is when I get CONNECT issue.

Jan 4 and still not working for me :-( They've had the whole weekend to work on it. Tomorrow the stock market opens again. Has anybody heard anything from Microsoft ?

Jan 4....still down

This is very frustrating. We expect excellent service from Microsoft and to have this problem sitting for four days is unacceptable.

Still down!

The company is worth $3.5 trillion and somehow they can't get stock data to pull into their own spreadsheets?!?!?!!?!?

I ended up building my own makeshift version now even though on the chat they told me "we'll look into this faster than you building your own".

My guess is they have no plans to fix this...and it was a crappy Happy New Year surprise to their users and they don't care.

Wonder if Microsoft is planning to give partial refunds for 365 users as the product is not delivering what was promised. The "server" has now been down for 5 days and at the worst possible time of the year!!!

Until they get more mass media coverage, the issue is being treated as secondary problem to a small number of users.

I ended up copying my spreadsheet to Google Sheets and canceled my Microsoft subscription. When I talked to Microsoft customer service they said to give them 24-48 hours, that was 96 hours ago and still not fixed. I'm not paying money for poor service and no answers from their customer service.

The datastream comes from LSEG Data and Analytics. Likely MS is not even taking action.

Funny how this service ended on the New Year (Jan 1st, 2026)

The only reason I have a 365 subscription is because of Excel/stockhistory function. I'll wait a few more days until I have some free time to move away from it if I have to, but does anyone have any recommendations on what would be more reliable? I've heard of google sheets as one

I may try Google Sheets. Apples "Numbers'. does not stream real time data. Only closing price from day before.

The datastream comes from LSEG Data and Analytics. Likely MS is not even taking action.

It's working now

Yes, I just verified it is working. Let’s hope this continues.