Microsoft customers often worry about the threat of a widespread and large outage. However, what they don’t realize is that they are getting beat up by an aggregate of smaller, less damaging but still annoying outages. There are a couple of deeper issues here that warrant a closer look in order to understand what the real risk is, and what you can do about it.
On November 22, 2021, at ~7:44 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which users were unable to load images in Microsoft Teams chats or channels.
For IT professionals and system admins with Microsoft admin center access, the initial service incident # was TM299667.
On November 17, 2021, at ~4:06 pm UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which users were experiencing access delays for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams.
For IT professionals and system admins with Microsoft admin center access, the issue # was MO298798.
On November 17, 2021, at ~8:30 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which users were unable to access Microsoft Forms.
For IT professionals and system admins with Microsoft admin center access, the issue # was FM298724.
On November 15, 2021, at ~10:09 pm UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which users were unable to "see" the Microsoft Teams toolbar during calls.
For IT professionals and system admins with Microsoft admin center access, the issue # was TM298411.
On November 10, 2021, at ~10:11 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which admins were unable to adjust payment settings in the Microsoft admin center.
For IT pros with Microsoft admin center access, the issue # was MO297423.
On November 9, 2021, at ~10:11 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which some users may not be able to access some Microsoft 365 services when using Single Sign On (SSO) apps.
If you are an IT pro with Microsoft admin center access, the service incident number was MO297147.
On November 2, 2021, at ~11:44 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue involving users not being able to access files within Microsoft 365.
If you had access to the Microsoft admin center, the issue reference # was MO295728.
On October 19, 2021, at ~5:40 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue impacting users in the European geo not being unable to join or create meetings.
If you had access to the Microsoft admin center, the issue reference # was TM292507.
On October 7, 2021, at ~9:25 am UTC, Microsoft communicated via tweet (@MSFT365status) that they were investigating an issue in which some users were unable to make or receive PSTN calls.
Microsoft also indicated in this first notification that Europe was the only known impacted geo. The incident number for IT pros with admin center access was TM289868. The last outage/service interruption that Microsoft communicated was just 3 days ago (October 4th).