Microsoft Teams Suffer Outage, Limits Access to Multiple Users

Microsoft Teams' servers in North and South America reportedly went down this weekend as hundreds of users got locked out of the platform.

Microsoft confirmed the outage as a "networking issue" that restricted users from sending and receiving messages, as well as delays in graphic displays.

Later reports indicate that a backup server has already been activated to ease outages in other regions. The outage went on for 13 hours.

However, according to outage tracker DownDetector, reports of service outage still continue as of writing albeit at a much lower number.

Most reported problems show connection errors on the app and platform servers.

What was Affected by the Microsoft Outage?

Final reports of the incident show several functions of the platform were heavily affected, to many users' annoyance.

These include the ability to load messages, media recordings, and channels. Anonymous users also had a harder time entering the platform during the outage.

Access to several features in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and even Copilot were also tanked by the outage.

If users tried to fix the error via a cold boot, they will only be greeted by an "oops" page and their Teams account unable to be logged in.

Microsoft did not disclose the specific cause of the outage nor the total number of users affected.

The outage last weekend marks the longest and most severe Microsoft Teams server blackout since last year when it went down for over four hours.

Microsoft Teams Riddled with Outages

Last weekend's outage was not the first time Microsoft Teams' servers went down globally.

Since 2019, the platform has been suffering outages in succeeding years to varying degrees of impact.

As of writing, Microsoft has not reported that user information has been leaked to third parties due to system outages.