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2026-04-16	Status	Description
08:31 AM		Service Degradation Title: Users are unable to communicate with external domains in Microsoft Teams User impact: Users are unable to communicate with external domains in Microsoft Teams. More info: Users are unable to add external domain users to Teams group chats on both the desktop and web clients. Some users who were previously members of external domain group chats got removed from the chats. Current status: We’ve applied a mitigation strategy to a portion of affected users to add previously removed external domain users back to their intended group chats and restore associated chat message history. In parallel, we’re continuing to verify all impacted threads and ensure the mitigation is applied for all affected users. Scope of impact: Your organization is affected by this event, and any user attempting to communicate with external domains in Microsoft Teams is impacted.
08:26 AM		Service Degradation Title: Some users may be unable to move channels into folders, such as favorites, or sections within Microsoft Teams
08:24 AM		Service Degradation Title: Users may be unable to adjust their camera brightness in Microsoft Teams settings User impact: Users may be unable to adjust their camera brightness in Microsoft Teams settings. More info: When attempting to adjust camera brightness, users may receive a message stating "Adjust brightness is unavailable. Check your network connection, or contact your IT admin."

08:31 AM

Service Degradation

Title: Users are unable to communicate with external domains in Microsoft Teams
User impact: Users are unable to communicate with external domains in Microsoft Teams.
More info: Users are unable to add external domain users to Teams group chats on both the desktop and web clients. Some users who were previously members of external domain group chats got removed from the chats.
Current status: We’ve applied a mitigation strategy to a portion of affected users to add previously removed external domain users back to their intended group chats and restore associated chat message history. In parallel, we’re continuing to verify all impacted threads and ensure the mitigation is applied for all affected users.
Scope of impact: Your organization is affected by this event, and any user attempting to communicate with external domains in Microsoft Teams is impacted.

08:26 AM

Service Degradation

Title: Some users may be unable to move channels into folders, such as favorites, or sections within Microsoft Teams

08:24 AM

Service Degradation

Title: Users may be unable to adjust their camera brightness in Microsoft Teams settings
User impact: Users may be unable to adjust their camera brightness in Microsoft Teams settings.
More info: When attempting to adjust camera brightness, users may receive a message stating "Adjust brightness is unavailable. Check your network connection, or contact your IT admin."