Microsoft Teams hit with major outage

Microsoft has confirmed it experienced a major outage to its Teams service, derailing court proceedings.

Microsoft says it has completed re-routing traffic.

Microsoft has confirmed it experienced a major outage to its Microsoft Teams service in the Asia Pacific region, amid reports court proceedings have been delayed.

Users began reporting issues with the group collaboration service on Wednesday morning.

“Apparently, there is a worldwide outage affecting Microsoft Teams,” Sydney Morning Herald journalist Kate McClymont wrote on Twitter.

“Just been informed of this by the Federal Court as we waited for more than an hour to follow the Melissa Caddick proceedings.”

Apparently, there is a worldwide outage affecting Microsoft Teams. Just been informed of this by the Federal Court as we waited for more than an hour to follow the Melissa Caddick proceedings. 🤔

— Kate McClymont (@Kate_McClymont) February 7, 2023

Just after 11am AEDT, Microsoft confirmed via its official Microsoft 365 Status account that it was “investigating an issue affecting user access to Teams services and functionality for customers hosted within the Asia-Pacific region”.

In an update just before midday, Microsoft wrote, “We’ve completed re-routing traffic and our monitoring indicates that Teams start up and sign in have mostly recovered. We’ll continue working until the service has fully recovered.”

We've completed re-routing traffic and our monitoring indicates that Teams start up and sign in have mostly recovered. We'll continue working until the service has fully recovered. Additional details are available through TM512596 in the admin center.

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) February 8, 2023

Last month, Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, suffered a global outage, also affecting products including Teams and Outlook.

Microsoft Teams faced a similar outage in July last year.

The prior October, Meta was hit with a massive global outage affecting Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for nearly six hours.

That outage was blamed on a Domain Name System (DNS) failure.

A DNS connects domain names to the right IP addresses so that people can access websites.

Earlier in 2021, an outage at a major DNS operator took out huge swathes of the internet briefly.

Originally published as Microsoft Teams hit with major outage