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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by peteradio »

technick wrote: post #50

I got my first taste of teams about a month ago. I had to install it on my personal laptop for a job interview. After installation, my laptop started displaying notifications encouraging me to renew my monthly subscriptions to Microsoft Office and Xbox Game Pass, things I haven't had a subscription for in over a year. It automatically set itself to start up with the computer which isn't unexpected. However I disabled…

Look its not hard to disable the autostart you just got to interrupt on boot and get into the bios settings, from their boot a minimum os of your preference and mount onto the windows partition. Find the registry and kick up the 4d3d3d3.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

I've been using Teams for a few years, at a small company with (in my admittedly parochial opinion) an uncommonly competent and diligent IT department, and it still vexes me. I've seen intermittent stuff along similar lines as this "outage" for as long as I've been using it, but the severity is normally such that it's just the tiniest bit of friction, easily overcome by our team's trust that we're not using it as an excuse to be unresponsive. Usually it works fine. Often enough that it's annoying, presence or meeting status refuses to update until I poke the UI hard enough, with "enough" seemingly varying with the phase of the moon. I sometimes watch the little circle in the corner of my icon wondering: is it enough to unlock my Windows desktop? To hover over the Teams window at all? To hover over something that forces it to redraw? To click the window and give it input focus? To reboot my DSL modem? Do the developers of the client (or the Azure message bus backend, or whatever alchemy they're doing over in Redmond) even know the answer?

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by StarlaAtNight »

FridgeSeal wrote: post #43
robertlagrant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People seem much harsher on Slack, for some reason. Sometimes being the better product just means people notice when it's broken.

Is there a term for how people just kind of acclimatise to a broken, buggy tool, and don’t realise when it’s extra broken? A sort of software Stockholm syndrome?

Clippyitis

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by Khaine »

JohnFen wrote: post #26
nerdjon wrote: post #7

What I find most interesting about this is how long it took to see reporting on this issue, unlike what I remember the reporting on Slack being down 5 or 6 years ago that I could fairly reliably find somewhere that said it was down. Has how we used these tools just changed? They are so janky in the first place that them being "down" is questionably different? Just seems weird.

Personally, I just expect Teams to be janky. At least where I work, I don't think that a day goes by that it doesn't glitch out in one way or another.

Teams is a pile of junk.

It crashes randomly. It cuts off text when you start typing. It is terrible.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by jwnin »

m348e912 wrote: post #73

I am sheepishly going to chime in and say I recognize many of ms teams shortcomings but I actually cringe when I have to join meetings on zoom or god forbid, webex. Joining meetings in teams and sharing screen works decently well for me and I do it enough that I am fairly satisfied with it. Could it be lighter weight? Yeah for sure. But I am definitely not running into the same issues that some people are seeing on t…

The new (non-electron) Teams 2.0 is lighter weight and subjectively feels more responsive, fwiw.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by jwnin »

bloopernova wrote: post #4

What's the correct status page to check? I would have assumed this: https://status.office365.com/ but it shows nothing useful. https://portal.office.com/servicestatus At least this one shows there's an issue.

It is appalling that the M365 PG resists the transparency that Azure has - no login required to see status & publicly accessible post incident reports. The best they have is an unverified Xitter account.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by waynesonfire »

120bits wrote: post #56
technick wrote: post #50

I got my first taste of teams about a month ago. I had to install it on my personal laptop for a job interview. After installation, my laptop started displaying notifications encouraging me to renew my monthly subscriptions to Microsoft Office and Xbox Game Pass, things I haven't had a subscription for in over a year. It automatically set itself to start up with the computer which isn't unexpected. However I disabled…

I switched companies and I had to use teams. From my experience coming Slack, teams feels heavy app. The bootup is slow and overall it felt like its bloated app. I'm using M1Pro Mac. What I don't like the most of the teams app is, the freaking code editor. If I paste code in teams, it feels hard to read, in Slack it looks much better. Also, I hate it when on teams having some serious chat about prod issue and some in…

Nevermind bloated, the entire chat workflow experiance is awful.

Re: Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Post by addicted »

Vigorosotuna96 wrote: post #42
JohnFen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I just expect Teams to be janky. At least where I work, I don't think that a day goes by that it doesn't glitch out in one way or another.

Spot on analysis. It's a broken product, most of the time, for me.

Every week I face a new issue with Teams because every week MS will push a silent update which will invariably fix one thing but break another.
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