Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live are down for some users

Many Microsoft services, including Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live, are experiencing outages for some users starting Thursday night.

Microsoft’s Office 365 status page states that there is a “DNS issue affecting multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services.” the Microsoft 365 Support Twitter Account says the company has “rerouted traffic to our resilient DNS capabilities and is seeing improved service availability.” The account first recognized that there was a problem at 5:45 p.m. ET.

Microsoft @XboxSupport account did not tweet specifically about the outage, but did retweet recent messages from the Outriders Twitter account about server issues. The Xbox status page indicates that there is an outage related to Outriders, and posted this message:

You might not be able to sign in to your Xbox profile, might get signed out while signing in, or have other related issues. Features that require login, such as most games, apps, and social activities, will not be available.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is not the only recent outage of Microsoft services. Microsoft Teams, Azure, and other Microsoft 365 services were down for about four hours on March 15.

Updated April 1, 6:40 p.m. ET: Added a new tweet from Microsoft.