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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app.

Microsoft in its earnings call in January had said that Teams surpassed 270 million monthly active users, as demand for remote business-oriented teleconferencing and messaging tools soared and became a key fixture for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic as people worked from homes. MS Teams forms an integral part of daily operations for businesses as workers use the service to communicate internally, message each other, make calls and organize their workflow. Microsoft Corp's messaging application MS Teams was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to an outage tracking website, and the company said it was investigating the disruption.

Updated Microsoft's Teams collaboration environment is experiencing an outage, depriving unknown numbers of people of the opportunity to enjoy video and/or ...

We anticipate that some users may be able to access the affected features shortly." Those who attend offices may also wish to consider "walking" to a "meeting room" – a facility established with the express purpose of allowing teams of people to interact. Reconnecting…' Users leveraging the web client may see a message stating 'Operation failed with unexpected error'." Among the services troubled by the outage is the admin center, where Microsoft offers info on outages. The Register would like to take this opportunity to wish readers the best during this trying time, and to remind them that olde-timey devices called "telephones" still exist and can quite easily arrange at least three-way calls. Most of the reaction The Register can find is therefore from the Asia-Pacific region, where businesses such as an Australian horse-racing organization have been disrupted.

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app, ...

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The web monitoring firm also showed there were more than 150 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Office 365. However, there were more than 4,800 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Teams at about 10 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Other big technology companies have also been hit by outages in the past year, with a near six-hour disruption at Meta Platforms keeping WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger out of reach for billions of users last October.

While Microsoft is yet to announce how many have been affected by the outage, DownDetector peaked with over 7,500 reports of the issue. Reports also suggest ...

This is a growing issue, with an increased number of people working from home following the global COVID-19 pandemic, with thousands worldwide depending on services such as Teams and Office 365. The past year has seen sever other big technology company’s hit with outages, with Sony’s PlayStation Network out the other day and Meta Platforms having a 6-hour outage last October, which affected WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. Businesses have been heavily affected to, with services such as MailChimp going down for many only the other day. Microsoft’s business communications platform Teams has been reported as down worldwide, affecting at least thousands of users.

Microsoft has pinpointed the cause of an outage to its Teams collaboration platform that is having a global impact. "We've determined that a recent ...

Reconnecting…'," Microsoft said. "In parallel, we’re exploring other options to mitigate impact as quickly as possible." "We’re working to direct traffic to a healthy service to mitigate impact.

Users in Singapore and globally were unable to access its communications platform Microsoft Teams from as early as 9am on Thursday.

In an update on Twitter at 11.02am, Microsoft said: "We've determined that a recent deployment contained a broken connection to an internal storage service, which has resulted in impact. "We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features," said Microsoft on Twitter at 9.47am. This happened after a recent update caused a broken connection to an internal storage service, the company said.

Microsoft Teams functionality is beginning to recover,” Microsoft tweeted.

However, the tech giant Microsoft did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. “We have determined that a recent deployment contained a broken connection to an internal storage service. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text.

Microsoft Corp's messaging application MS Teams was down for thousands of users on Thursday (Jul 21), according to an outage tracking website, ...

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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app.

Skype also offers video calling features to its users. Google Meet is a video-communication platform developed by Google. It offers multi-way audio and video calls with a resolution up to 720 pixels. It is browser compatible and also has a mobile application.

BENGALURU: Microsoft Corp's MS Teams was back up for some users, the company said on Thursday (Jul 21), after an hours-long outage that disrupted the chat ...

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MICROSOFT Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app, ...

According to Downdetector.com, there were more than 4800 cases of customers reporting troubles with Microsoft Teams.

A slew of global electronics and hardware manufacturers are petitioning the Centre for an early release of payments due to them under the country’s ambitious production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, people directly in the know told ET. The government lowered the ‘windfall’ levy on domestic crude and fuel exports on Wednesday in the first review of the tax imposed on July 1 this month as international crude oil prices softened.Volume Drops Point to Stress on Demand: Mehta The company, however, made no mention of the number of users who were impacted.

Updated: Microsoft 365 apps including Microsoft Teams and Outlook suffered issues after a service outage lasting several hours.

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Service health status "Current status: Our telemetry indicates that service availability continues to be above 99% across the majority of regions. We're working to direct traffic to a healthy service to mitigate impact. The issue also prevented autopatching within Microsoft Managed Desktop and other services.

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We are continuing to see improvements to the affected Microsoft Teams functionality. We’re working to direct traffic to a healthy service to mitigate impact. — Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status)July 21, 2022

What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, including Exchange ...

"We've identified downstream impact to multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, such as Microsoft Word, Office Online and SharePoint Online," Microsoft explained. Microsoft confirmed the issues saying that the subsequent Microsoft 365 outage only affected services that came with Teams integration. What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, including Exchange Online, Windows 365, and Office Online.