On February 4, 2021, at ~4:30 pm UTC, Microsoft reported an issue that was causing some users in North America to experience issues when attempting to join meetings in Microsoft Teams.
Many users took to Twitter to express their frustration due to little information available in the Service Health Dashboard and the multiple issues that had taken place in the past week.
Shortly after, Microsoft reported that they had identified a drop in availability for the service that facilitates meeting join functionality and they were reviewing monitoring telemetry to identify the cause of the issue.
Finally, at 6:00 am UTC, Microsoft reported that they had rebalanced user requests and confirmed that impact had been remediated.
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