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Many Microsoft customers are currently reporting disruptions: »Possible network problem«
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If you wanted to coordinate with colleagues in a team video conference on Wednesday morning, you might have had to deal with problems such as a frozen camera image or a choppy sound.
This is due to serious disruptions that are currently occurring in various Microsoft services.
Customers reported the difficulties in using it on portals such as "Downdetector" and "All Incidents", which can be used to report failures.
Microsoft has already admitted to reviewing a disruption.
The company spoke of a “service degradation”, a current deterioration in its services.
According to Microsoft's announcement, there is a "possible network problem", which means that "users may not be able to access various Microsoft 365 services".
According to the company, the problem affects customers worldwide.
The services that may be disrupted include the Microsoft Teams video conferencing program, the Outlook e-mail service and the Sharepoint cloud platform.
Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption.
But according to Alle disturbances, there were over 10,000 fault reports at around 9 a.m.
Downdetector data showed more than 3,900 incidents in India and over 900 in Japan.
More failures were also reported in Australia, Great Britain and the United Arab Emirates.
Microsoft Teams is used by more than 280 million people worldwide.
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