{"id":89490,"date":"2024-01-28T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=89490"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:53:53","slug":"microsoft-teams-suffers-outage-affecting-thousands-sparking-user-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=89490","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams suffers outage affecting thousands, sparking user frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft Corp.\u2019s Teams suffered an outage Friday, prompting users to voice their frustration on social media with the workplace-communications platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cUser reports indicate problems at Microsoft Teams,\u201d the Down Detector website, which monitors online outages, posted Friday. Down Detector showed that as of 1:43 p.m. Eastern time, users had submitted 14,599 reports of problems with Microsoft Teams. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and we\u2019re performing a failover to remediate impact,\u201d Microsoft 365\u2019s official updates account on X posted Friday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a failover, a backup system is used to take over an operation.<\/p>\n

From the archives (April 2020):<\/strong> Microsoft Teams continues to grow at a blistering pace<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve completed the failover in the EMEA region and service telemetry is showing some improvement,\u201d read a post from the account shortly afterwards. \u201cThe failovers for the North and South America regions are ongoing and we continue to monitor.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on X at 3:40 p.m. Eastern time, Microsoft said that the failover operation \u201cdid not provide immediate relief\u201d to all users in North and South America. \u201cHowever, we\u2019re seeing improvements as we continue to optimize traffic patterns and apply configuration changes intended to reduce customer impact as quickly as possible,\u201d the company added. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur network and backend service optimization efforts are ongoing, and we\u2019re monitoring positive internal telemetry signals to confirm that our mitigations are effectively reducing the impact to customers,\u201d Microsoft posted on X<\/a> at 5:12 p.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n

When asked for comment on the extent of the outage and the number of users affected, Microsoft referred MarketWatch to Microsoft 365\u2019s official updates on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Teams users on social media shared their experiences with the outage. \u201cMicrosoft Teams users are experiencing issues with delays in delivering chat messages, messages not being delivered, etc.,\u201d Cedarville University\u2019s information-technology department posted on X. \u201cThis is a known issue and Microsoft is in the process of resolving the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c@MicrosoftTeams does not work at all!\u201d wrote user @Frau_Rabe on X. \u201cIf you\u2019re using this \u2018platform\u2019 to communicate inside your company or with your clients, watch out! Because is not reliable! does not send the messages on time and don\u2019t load the images.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs, including at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, as layoffs hit videogame industry<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there an outage? Our team is having trouble even logging in and I cannot get anything to load @MicrosoftTeams,\u201d wrote user @jenniferznanni on X.<\/p>\n

Microsoft
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\n introduced the Teams platform in 2017, and it quickly became the company\u2019s fastest-growing app, according to the tech giant.<\/p>\n

Microsoft shares ended Friday\u2019s session down 0.2% and are up 62.8% in the last 52 weeks, outpacing the S&P 500 index\u2019s
\n SPX
\n gain of 20.2% over the same period.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n