Microsoft Teams DOWN: Microsoft confirms Office 365 and Azure issues – Express

Microsoft Teams DOWN: Microsoft confirms Office 365 and Azure issues – Express

Microsoft Teams down and Office 365 issues
Microsoft Teams is experiencing a major outage today, with Office 365 and Azure services also impacted by the latest service problems the Windows 10 makers are experiencing. Independent outage monitor Down Detector has experienced a huge spike in Microsoft Teams down reports, as well as reported issues with Outlook, Azure and Office 365. At the time of writing, downdetector.com has registered almost 30,000 reports of Microsoft Teams down.
Out of those affected some 63 percent are having server connection issues while others are having Microsoft Teams login problems.
The official Office 365 Status website has confirmed that Microsoft Teams – as well as Azure and Microsoft 365 services – are experiencing issues today.
The Office 355 Status website said: “Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services, including the Service Health Dashboard.
“Initial reports indicate that primary impact is to Microsoft Teams; however, other services including Exchange Online and Yammer are also impacted.”
The website added that Microsoft engineers are in the process of investigating the issue.
The official Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account has also been tweeting about today’s issues and giving affected users updates.
The @MSFT365Status tweeted: “We’ve identified an issue with a recent change to an authentication system. We’re rolling back the update to mitigate impact, which we expect will take approximately 15 minutes.”
The account also said the “issue could be affecting users worldwide”.
As the Microsoft Teams issues hit users took to social networking site Twitter to report the problems they were facing.
One tweeted: “MICROSOFT TEAMS IS DOWN”.Microsoft Teams down - Major outage hitsWhile another posted: “Nothing quite stops productivity in its tracks like @MicrosoftTeams going down.”
One added: “Microsoft Teams is down… everyone take the rest of the day off”.
And another wrote: “Microsoft Teams is down and I don’t know what to do with myself.”
More to follow…
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