Microsoft Teams abruptly stopped working due to Microsoft's 'silly' mistake

On the night of February 3, the morning format of February 2, Microsoft Teams abruptly stopped working for nearly 3 hours, and the reason was extremely funny: Microsoft forgot to renew an extremely confidential security certificate. important to this platform.

The problem was reported by Microsoft Teams users when they unexpectedly received an error message after repeatedly trying to log in to their service account. This error message indicates that Microsoft Teams cannot establish an HTTPS secure connection with Microsoft servers, resulting in a login session being canceled.

Shortly after that, Redmond company confirmed the incident at 9 am on February 3 (according to the US Eastern time zone), and said that the reason was that an expired authentication certificate, causing users to experience problems using the service. Simultaneously a fix was released more than 2 hours later, at 11:20. Microsoft confirmed the fix was successfully deployed at 16:27 and until 24:00 the same day, the new service was basically restored for most users.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is an 'embarrassing' mistake for a large company like Microsoft, especially when this incident occurred for one of the world's leading 'Office hub' services in current time.

To make matters worse, Microsoft recently launched the System Center Operations Manager service to track system problems, such as certificate expiration. This makes the hype about Microsoft's new service really a joke.

Microsoft Teams is a team application launched in 2016, supports chat, document sharing, video calling, and is integrated with other famous Microsoft applications such as Office 365, Skype. . By the end of November 2019, Microsoft announced that Teams now has 20 million regular users, and surpassed Slack to become the world's most used teamwork application.