Microsoft 365 Alert – Service Degradation – Microsoft Teams – Participants couldn’t be added to meetups or calls – RESOLVED
04/12/2023 13:40:00 PM
NHSMail Reference: INC40044080
Microsoft Reference: TM695319
Issue Status: RESOLVED
Issue Description: Participants couldn’t be added to meetups or calls.
More info: Additionally, users may have been unable to receive real-time chat messages or calls in Microsoft Teams.
Final Update: 04/12/2023 08:45:00 AM – Microsoft have identified that a section of infrastructure, responsible for facilitating some meeting functionalities became unresponsive, due to a caching overload issue which resulted in impact. They’ve disabled the affected caching and rerouted user traffic to alternate infrastructure to aid with the overload. They’ve further confirmed that the issue is has been resolved after an extended period of monitoring.
Scope of impact: Impact was specific to some users who were served through the affected infrastructure.
Root cause: A section of infrastructure, responsible for facilitating some meeting functionalities became unresponsive, due to a caching overload issue which resulted in impact
Next steps: Microsoft are analyzing their affected caching systems to help understand what caused the overload, in order to prevent this issue from happening again.