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O365 - Teams
2026-03-16 Status Description
02:50 PM Notice Service Degradation

Title: Users may be unable to utilize spell check in Microsoft Teams desktop client
User impact: Users may be unable to utilize spell check in Microsoft Teams desktop client.
Current status: We're reviewing Microsoft Teams desktop client logs collected from a subset of users experiencing impact to identify and isolate any errors potentially contributing to impact for further investigation.
Scope of impact: This issue may affect any user utilizing the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows devices.
Next update by: Monday, March 16, 2026, at 7:00 PM UTC
08:53 AM Notice Title: Some users may not see descriptions of Microsoft Teams webinars on the public registration page
User impact: Users may not see descriptions of Microsoft Teams webinars on the public registration page.
Final status: The roll back to the previous stable build has completed, and we've confirmed that this has remediated the impact which was caused by the regression introduced in the update to the process by which the description is displayed. Affected users may need to refresh their cache to receive the mitigation.
Scope of impact: Some users attempting to see the descriptions of Microsoft Teams webinars on the public registration page may have been impacted.
Start time: Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 10:00 AM UTC
End time: Friday, March 13, 2026, at 5:50 PM UTC
Root cause: An update to the process by which the description is displayed has introduced a regression which resulted in the impact.
Next steps:
- We're reviewing our update procedures to ensure similar issues are caught and addressed ahead of deployment to prevent this from happening again.
This is the final update for the event.