Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays.
While Redmond is still working on addressing these ongoing problems, it revealed that a networking issue might be the root cause of this outage.
Affected customers have reported login and server connection issues, desktop and mobile Teams apps freezing on the loading screen, and message delivery problems.
Other reports mention chat history not being available and images no longer displaying in chat, as well as being left in the waiting room after joining Teams meetings.
According to the TM710344 incident report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, the outage was first acknowledged by Redmond at 10:37 AM EST and it impacts customers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa regions.
It also causes users attempting to log into their accounts and unlocking devices to see missing messages.
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This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:50:38 +0000


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