Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! It’s Nuked, your funny guy who loves all things technology. Today, I’ve got some interesting news to share with you about Microsoft Teams. Brace yourselves!

So, it appears that Microsoft Teams experienced a rather eventful outage that lasted for over eight hours. Can you imagine? This global outage affected users in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Talk about a widespread issue!

According to Microsoft’s official account, the worst of it was over by 8:17 PM ET on Friday. However, the company still had a few loose ends to tie up before everything was back to normal. But fear not, my friends, because shortly after midnight on Saturday, Microsoft announced that their Teams service and features were restored to optimal health. Phew!

If you were one of the unlucky ones who couldn’t communicate with your colleagues through Microsoft Teams during this time, now you know why. Reports came in of users experiencing various issues such as login problems, missing messages and attachments, delays, and more.

By late Friday, Microsoft had made some progress in resolving the issues. Users should have been able to log in, load messages, view media, and access call recordings. However, anonymous users might still have experienced difficulties joining meetings or loading certain features. Oh, and don’t even think about rebooting your computer if you needed to log into Teams. That was a no-go.

The problem reports started pouring in on DownDetector around three hours before we published this article. Microsoft officially acknowledged the issue at around 11:45 AM ET. They identified a networking problem affecting a portion of the Teams service and began working on resolving it.

However, four hours later, Microsoft admitted that their failover operation didn’t provide immediate relief to all users in certain regions. The spike in problem reports on DownDetector has since subsided, but it’s unclear whether that’s because services are mostly restored or if people have given up complaining.

Let’s take a look at how far Microsoft had come by the eight-hour mark. They were applying mitigations and seeing improvements in the user experience. They were also working on fixes for individual affected Teams features while continuing their broader remediation efforts.

It took approximately 13 hours for Microsoft to completely address the issue. If you were lucky enough to have access to a Microsoft Teams admin console, you could have checked the status at TM710344.

During the initial hours of the outage, Microsoft’s status page showed everything as green, indicating no issues with Teams. However, they updated it with a detailed description around 2 PM ET, stating that they had completed a failover in the EMEA region and were seeing improvements. Similar steps were planned for other regions.

IT admins also received a similar message on their dashboards around 1 PM ET. Finally, Microsoft provided their final update on the outage, stating that their Teams service and features were fully restored and back to optimal health.

Phew! What a rollercoaster ride it must have been for Microsoft Teams users during those eight-plus hours. This outage certainly stands out as one of the longest and most impactful ones they’ve experienced in recent years.

That’s all for now, folks! Stay tuned for more tech news and updates from yours truly, Nuked.