Teams is down: Microsoft broke its own storage and is trying to fix it fast
(2022/07/21)
- Reference: 1658374518
- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/07/21/teams_outage/
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Microsoft’s Teams collaboration environment is experiencing an outage, depriving unknown numbers of people of the opportunity to enjoy video and/or audio conferences, or to access documents.
Microsoft acknowledged the issue at 01:47 UTC on July 21st and offered the following update around 75 minute later.
We’ve determined that a recent deployment contained a broken connection to an internal storage service, which has resulted in impact. We’re working to direct traffic to a healthy service to mitigate impact. Additional information can be found in the admin center under TM402718. — Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) [1]July 21, 2022
The outage appears to be global but Microsoft is perhaps a little fortunate that the incident struck when the working day was all-but over in the USA, and in the dark of the European night. Most of the reaction The Register can find is therefore from the Asia-Pacific region, where businesses such as an Australian horse-racing organisation have been disrupted by the incident.
Due to a worldwide outage of Microsoft Teams, The Racing & Stewards Offices are only contactable via email.
No ETA given.
Further communication will be relayed once the phone system in back online.
Racing Office: harnessinfo@rwwa.com.au
Stewards: RWWAHarnessStewards@rwwa.com.au — The Trots WA (@TheTrotsWA) [2]July 21, 2022
Others have wryly observed that the outage will allow workers some unplanned but welcome downtime.
"There's a global outage with MS Teams. Global support teams are working on the resolution of the issue."
Me: [3]pic.twitter.com/7PtiZVFqSA — Jox Populi 🏳️🌈 (@Joxyfication) [4]July 21, 2022
Some are seeking to profit from the incident.
Officially selling the "I Survived the microsoft teams outage 21 July 2022" T shirts
Don't forget this exciting moment for microsft teams [5]#msteams [6]#microsoftteams ms teams [7]pic.twitter.com/F4Lu3Gdsx0 — MetaverseTownHall (@MetaverseTownHl) [8]July 21, 2022
The Register would like to take this opportunity to wish readers the best during this trying time, and to remind them that “telephones” exist and can quite easily arrange at least three-way calls. Those who attend offices may also wish to consider “walking” to a “meeting room”, a facility established with the express purpose of allowing teams of people to interact. ®
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[1] https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1549952827656585217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[2] https://twitter.com/TheTrotsWA/status/1549948267722833921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://t.co/7PtiZVFqSA
[4] https://twitter.com/Joxyfication/status/1549953529854406659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://twitter.com/hashtag/msteams?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://twitter.com/hashtag/microsoftteams?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[7] https://t.co/F4Lu3Gdsx0
[8] https://twitter.com/MetaverseTownHl/status/1549951937147437056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[9] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Microsoft acknowledged the issue at 01:47 UTC on July 21st and offered the following update around 75 minute later.
We’ve determined that a recent deployment contained a broken connection to an internal storage service, which has resulted in impact. We’re working to direct traffic to a healthy service to mitigate impact. Additional information can be found in the admin center under TM402718. — Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) [1]July 21, 2022
The outage appears to be global but Microsoft is perhaps a little fortunate that the incident struck when the working day was all-but over in the USA, and in the dark of the European night. Most of the reaction The Register can find is therefore from the Asia-Pacific region, where businesses such as an Australian horse-racing organisation have been disrupted by the incident.
Due to a worldwide outage of Microsoft Teams, The Racing & Stewards Offices are only contactable via email.
No ETA given.
Further communication will be relayed once the phone system in back online.
Racing Office: harnessinfo@rwwa.com.au
Stewards: RWWAHarnessStewards@rwwa.com.au — The Trots WA (@TheTrotsWA) [2]July 21, 2022
Others have wryly observed that the outage will allow workers some unplanned but welcome downtime.
"There's a global outage with MS Teams. Global support teams are working on the resolution of the issue."
Me: [3]pic.twitter.com/7PtiZVFqSA — Jox Populi 🏳️🌈 (@Joxyfication) [4]July 21, 2022
Some are seeking to profit from the incident.
Officially selling the "I Survived the microsoft teams outage 21 July 2022" T shirts
Don't forget this exciting moment for microsft teams [5]#msteams [6]#microsoftteams ms teams [7]pic.twitter.com/F4Lu3Gdsx0 — MetaverseTownHall (@MetaverseTownHl) [8]July 21, 2022
The Register would like to take this opportunity to wish readers the best during this trying time, and to remind them that “telephones” exist and can quite easily arrange at least three-way calls. Those who attend offices may also wish to consider “walking” to a “meeting room”, a facility established with the express purpose of allowing teams of people to interact. ®
Get our [9]Tech Resources
[1] https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1549952827656585217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[2] https://twitter.com/TheTrotsWA/status/1549948267722833921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://t.co/7PtiZVFqSA
[4] https://twitter.com/Joxyfication/status/1549953529854406659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://twitter.com/hashtag/msteams?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://twitter.com/hashtag/microsoftteams?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[7] https://t.co/F4Lu3Gdsx0
[8] https://twitter.com/MetaverseTownHl/status/1549951937147437056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[9] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
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