Microsoft Teams down globally: Major outage leaves users unable to access features on app

Microsoft Teams down: Microsoft Teams is down globally as MS Teams app faced a major outage on Thursday morning. Thousands of users are unable to access Microsoft Teams app. 

Microsoft Corporation confirmed the outage in a Tweet where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app. The company did not disclose details on how many users were affected.

The company, however, said that it was investigating it matter. 

We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features. We're investigating the issue and further updates can be found in your Service Health Dashboard via TM402718.

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) July 21, 2022

There were more than 4,800 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Teams at about 10 p.m. ET, according to a Reuters report which quoted Downdetector.com. 

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

The web monitoring firm also showed there were more than 150 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Office 365.

Other big technology companies have also been hit by outages in the past year, with a near six-hour disruption at Meta Platforms keeping WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger out of reach for billions of users last October.

With Reuters Inputs