Washington [US]July 21 (ANI): Social media was flooded with memes for employees of several organizations across the world after Microsoft’s messaging application MS Teams was down on Thursday, affecting thousands of users globally during a busy mid-week .
According to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, Microsoft said it was investigating the outage and reported more than 4,800 incidents with Microsoft Teams on Wednesday.
Microsoft tweeted that it has determined the downstream effects of Teams integration across multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Microsoft Word, Office Online and SharePoint Online. “We have taken action to reroute a section of traffic to provide some relief within the environment”, the statement read.
Affected users took to Twitter and cracked down on the memes that surfaced of them on the outage. While sharing the meme, a user wrote, ‘Microsoft teams have stopped i.e. work has stopped.
Another tweeted a meme, which read, “My reaction when I got to know about #MicrosoftTeamsDown and I don’t need to attend those scheduled meetings”.
“All I want to say is, Microsoft Teams, please take your time. There’s no rush to fix your servers. Really that’s fine. We can wait. #MicrosoftTeams We can wait. Really”, A Twitter user wrote.
Microsoft said in a statement that a “broken connection” to the internal storage service resulted in a significant outage. “We have determined that there is a broken connection to an internal storage service in a recent deployment, resulting in an impact. We are working to direct traffic to a healthy service to minimize the impact. are,” the company said.
It also said it will update the report as soon as the business issues a formal announcement, confirming that the outage has been fixed and that the team is operating as normal for customers around the world.
Other major digital businesses have also had failures in the past year, with a nearly six-hour halt on the meta platform last October leaving WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger out of reach for billions of users. (ANI)
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