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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Problems began at around 1pm, rapidly reaching a crescendo of wailing from users unable to while away their day on chat channels and forced instead to get on with some actual work.
Microsoft has remained tight-lipped on the matter, with the status mouthpiece for Microsoft 365 only admitting that there was a problem. And that was it.
We're investigating an issue where users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams. We're reviewing systems data to determine the cause of the issue. More information can be found in the Admin center under TM202916
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status)
As for the cause, an expired authentication certificate was apparently the root of today's woes. If true, then the postmortem will make for interesting reading indeed. [...]
We're investigating an issue where users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will have further information soon. We appreciate your patience as we work to solve the problem.
— Microsoft Teams (@MicrosoftTeams)
The only deviation from the script was a brief message telling one worried user that there was no ETA for the resolution of the issue.
There is no workaround at present, and the issue is global. Affected users are unable to connect to the platform through the Windows desktop application, web or via smartphone app.
While the loss of messaging might do wonders for productivity, customers also use the platform to run meetings. Microsoft has been encouraging users in recent times to do this very thing as Skype for Business reaches the end of the road. Alas, when Teams disappears, so do those potentially important calls. Unless, of course, you have a backup.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:57PM (5 children)
what kind of dumb whore uses Microsoft Teams?
(Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Tuesday February 04 2020, @08:35PM (1 child)
Everyone that uses Windows. It got pushed out to and activated on my work Win 10 desktop (no choice) last week, which was annoying enough, but also got pushed out to the Win 7 Home machines of at least 2 friends. They're like "Teams? WTF?" and I'm like "Windows? WTF?".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @09:55PM
Gee, didn't get a thing on my two Win 7 Pro machines. Of course I have updates turned off...because you could still do that with Win 7.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 04 2020, @10:53PM
Those of us in big corporations whose managers decide it's a good thing. At least good this year. Along with this malware called 'Yammer'. Next year it will be some other fad.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @08:07PM
Anyone who works for a big corporation that uses it for chat and voice communications.
(Score: 2) by rleigh on Wednesday February 05 2020, @08:34PM
People whose companies require it for communications. I use it daily. In a previous team we used Slack. Prior to that, Jabber. It's not amazing or award-winning, it's a basic tool, but is still better than Slack (not that this is difficult). It sends messages to people or groups of people. Or files. It does voice/video calls. That's basically it. I don't think any of us love it, but it works decently enough. I get paid to work and get stuff done, not to evangelise chat clients. Doesn't make anyone a "dumb whore". Why get worked up over a decision corporate IT person made for the entire company? There's more important stuff to worry about.