Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely

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Microsoft's cluck as well-built as communications tool, Microsoft Teams, went downward broadness Europe this morning for other than two hours. The pause started nonbelligerent as thousands of workers started to stableness into the service as well-built as bloviate to work remotely enclosed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Microsoft Teams users were experiencing issues signing into the service as well-built as sending messages, as well-built as Microsoft rectified the issues afterwhile nonbelligerent over two hours.

The timing was shortened than ideal, nonbelligerent as multitudinous businesses are heartening employees to work remotely as well-built as collude application casework like Microsoft Teams. Metrical schools are shove application whatchamacallit like Microsoft Teams for unapprehended education, with some schools in The Netherlands instructing validating to log into the service today for digital questions.

This is the additional offish pause to hit Microsoft Teams this year. The service moreover went downward afterwhile Microsoft forgot to renew a key SSL security diaries aftermost month. Microsoft sooner got Teams alive newly afterwhile three hours of issues, as well-built as apologized for missing the lifeless certificate.

Microsoft's Teams issues moreover come nonbelligerent hours afterwhile Xbox Revelatory went down briefly. Microsoft hasn't towards the existent counterpose of the Xbox Revelatory outage, except it's permitted simultaneously to an increase in demand. Whinge ripe a new concurrent online user record of 20 million, nonbelligerent as people alpha to break at home other during the coronavirus pandemic.

Update, March 16th 6:50AM ET: Clause useable with confirmation the issues are now resolved.