Network Outage Impacts Microsoft Teams Service

networking issue caused an outage for Microsoft Teams on Friday

Users reported problems with the communication platform on desktop and mobile

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Teams enables virtual communication and collaboration for many offices

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The outage led to delays in sending messages within Teams

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Microsoft acknowledged the issue on Twitter, citing a "networking issue"

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The company failed over to alternate infrastructure to mitigate the problem

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After completing a failover in Europe, Microsoft saw some improvement

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Additional failovers were still underway in North and South America as Microsoft worked to fully restore service

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