If you’re trying to use Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Outlook, you might be in for a long afternoon.
First Microsoft definitively has a Teams outage and they are tracking the incident under TM1550488 according to this:
You can click the Tweet (X?) above for more information. But Teams isn’t the only thing that is down. I am also seeing massive instability with Microsoft Outlook. So I have to assume that Outlook is down as well. But the company is only admitting to Teams at this time. I guess we’ll have to wait until the company says more and ultimately resolves the issue.
UPDATE: Arvind Parthasarathi, CEO and Founder, CYGNVS Said This
“Everyone understands the importance of having out-of-band communications during a cyber incident, but as outages become an even more common business reality, that same principle needs to apply to any major disruption.
When core systems like email and collaboration platforms go down, organizations can lose the tools they depend on to coordinate their response. Companies need a secure, independent environment where employees, executives and external partners can continue communicating, making decisions and managing recovery. Business resilience means being prepared to operate when the technology you rely on is unavailable.”
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It’s Not You… Various Microsoft Services Are Down
If you’re trying to use Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Outlook, you might be in for a long afternoon.
First Microsoft definitively has a Teams outage and they are tracking the incident under TM1550488 according to this:
You can click the Tweet (X?) above for more information. But Teams isn’t the only thing that is down. I am also seeing massive instability with Microsoft Outlook. So I have to assume that Outlook is down as well. But the company is only admitting to Teams at this time. I guess we’ll have to wait until the company says more and ultimately resolves the issue.
UPDATE: Arvind Parthasarathi, CEO and Founder, CYGNVS Said This
“Everyone understands the importance of having out-of-band communications during a cyber incident, but as outages become an even more common business reality, that same principle needs to apply to any major disruption.
When core systems like email and collaboration platforms go down, organizations can lose the tools they depend on to coordinate their response. Companies need a secure, independent environment where employees, executives and external partners can continue communicating, making decisions and managing recovery. Business resilience means being prepared to operate when the technology you rely on is unavailable.”
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