Is it a joyous outage where you get to relax, or something mission critical going wrong? Either way, “a portion” of Microsoft Teams is down — with outages in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to a status update from Microsoft’s official account.

So yeah, if you can’t communicate with your colleagues right now via Microsoft’s biz comm platform, that’s probably why. Some users are reportedly not able to log into Teams, while others may see missing messages, missing attachments, delays — and fixing it is taking a while.

As of 8PM ET Friday, over eight hours after the outage began, Microsoft has not yet sent an all-clear. Here’s the latest update:

We’re continuing to apply mitigations across the…

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