Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours — it’s recovering

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Was it a joyous outage where you got to relax, or did something mission-critical go wrong? Either way, “a portion” of Microsoft Teams went down Friday for over eight hours — with outages in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to status updates from Microsoft’s official account.
At 8:17PM ET Friday, Microsoft tweeted that the worst is over, but that the company’s still mopping up, with a handful of issues still ongoing.
So yeah, if you couldn’t communicate with your colleagues today via Microsoft’s biz comm platform, that’s probably why. We’d seen reports of users not being able to log into Teams at all, while others saw missing messages, missing attachments, delays, and more.
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