WELLINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) -

New Zealand users of Microsoft ( MSFT ) services including

Exchange online are having difficulty accessing them, Microsoft ( MSFT )

confirmed on Thursday.

The company did not say how many users had been

affected.

It said it had rerouted traffic to alternate

infrastructure and was starting to see an improvement in service

ability. It said it would "work to identify the underlying cause

of the network issue."

This comes less than two week after faulty code in

CrowdStrike's widely used cybersecurity software resulted in one

of the

most widespread tech outages

in recent years for companies using Microsoft Windows

operating system.