Microsoft Teams Down for Thousands of Users, Company Investigating Outage

Microsoft stated on Wednesday it was investigating an outage the place customers had been unable to entry Microsoft Teams or leverage any options on the app, however didn’t disclose particulars on what number of customers had been affected.

However, there have been greater than 4,800 incidents of individuals reporting points with Microsoft Teams at about 10pm ET/ 7:30am IST, in keeping with Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating standing studies from sources together with user-submitted errors on its platform.

The net monitoring agency additionally confirmed there have been greater than 150 incidents of individuals reporting points with Microsoft Office 365. Meanwhile, statistics on Downdetector.in revealed that there have been round 1,700 complaints of being unable to entry Microsoft Teams from customers in India at round 8:50am.

We’ve obtained studies of customers being unable to entry Microsoft Teams or leverage any options. We’re investigating the difficulty and additional updates could be present in your Service Health Dashboard by way of TM402718.

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) July 21, 2022

Other huge expertise firms have additionally been hit by outages up to now 12 months, with a close to six-hour disruption at Meta protecting WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger out of attain for billions of customers final October.

Earlier this month, Twitter was down for a number of customers, in keeping with consumer studies on downtime tracker Downdetector. While the service gave the impression to be working usually in India, different areas around the globe, together with the US, look like affected by the outage.

Internet monitoring group Netblocks, which tracks makes an attempt to deliberately block web entry, says Twitter was “experiencing major international outages” but it surely was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.”

Notorious for outages in its early years, Twitter used its fashionable “Fail Whale” illustration, a beluga being lifted by birds, for such incidents till 2013 when it discontinued the brand.

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