News Summary

• 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..
• At 8:17PM ET Friday, Microsoft tweeted that the worst is over, but that the company was still mopping up, with a handful of issues still ongoing..
• 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..
• Shortly after midnight Saturday, the company called the all-clear: “we’ve confirmed that our Microsoft Teams service and features have been restored or have returned to optimal health,” it writes..
• The company said it identified “a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service,” and began failovers to resolve the problem..
• We’re also working to apply fixes to address individual affected Teams features in parallel while our broader remediation strategy is ongoing..