Work chat gone quiet? Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users
globalnews.caMicrosoft Teams work chat has gone quiet this Friday, chances are your boss didn’t let you out early for the weekend.The workspace chat and videoconferencing service started experiencing issues in various regions of the world earlier in the day.Close to 15,000 incidents with Microsoft Teams were logged on outage tracking website Downdetector.com as of 3 p.m. Eastern.
Microsoft acknowledged the outage on X, formerly known as Twitter, at 11:45 a.m. Eastern.Downdetector is a service that tracks outages by collecting status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.Microsoft said in a post on X that it had identified a “networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams Service,” though it’s not exactly clear what caused the issue.More than 320 million monthly active users are on Teams, Microsoft said in its first quarter earnings report on Oct.
24.“We’ve completed the failover in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region and service telemetry is showing some improvement,” Microsoft said.“The failovers for the North and South America regions are ongoing and we continue to monitor.”We've identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and we're performing a failover to remediate impact. Additional information can be found under TM710344 in the admin center.— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) January 26, 2024Users on Downdetector have been reporting delayed messages and repeated notifications, among other issues.It’s unclear when the outage will be resolved.— with files from Reuters
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