Some users may see a stale profile or unknown user for federated users in external chats and calls in Microsoft Teams

Title: Some users may see a stale profile or unknown user for federated users in external chats and calls in Microsoft Teams

User impact: Users may see a stale profile or unknown user for federated users in external chats and calls in Microsoft Teams.

More info: Impacted users may see the issue occurring for federated users in chats, calls, channels, and any other service feature that shows federated users. Impact occurs in all Microsoft Teams clients.

Current status: While we’re continuing to address the issue the fix encountered, we’re moving forward with preparing it for deployment to the affected environment. We anticipate that this may begin by our next scheduled communication update, at which time we’ll provide a resolution timeline at that point if available.

Scope of impact: Some users interacting with federated users from any Microsoft Teams client may be impacted.

Start time: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 11:00 AM UTC

Root cause: An imbalance of service load on a portion of infrastructure responsible for populating federated users’ data and information in Microsoft Teams that’s resulting in impact.

Next update by: Friday, March 29, 2024, at 10:00 PM UTC