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

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A major outage affecting systems across the world saw Microsoft Teams taken offline - but don't worry - it's back now you.

The video conferencing service was down for several hours following the huge global IT outage affecting Microsoft systems following a faulty CrowdStrike security update.

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

Microsoft Teams returns

The official Microsoft 365 Status page now 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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