Microsoft Teams was down in the big CrowdStrike outage — but bad news, it seems to be back up

Microsoft Teams returns following wide-ranging IT outage

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A major outage affecting systems across the world sawMicrosoft Teamstaken offline - but don’t worry - it’s back now you.

Thevideo conferencingservice was down for several hours following the hugeglobal IT outage affecting Microsoft systemsfollowing a faulty CrowdStrike security update.

The outage also had a knock-on effect on several otherMicrosoft 365services, with users across the world seemingly affected.

Microsoft Teams returns

The officialMicrosoft 365 Status pagenow shows no issues, but Windows workstations were hit by ‘blue screen of death’ error messages across the world.

The first reports of issues came from Australia, but also affected users across the US, UK and more.

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