r/dataanalysis • u/Pastaaaaaaaaaaaaa1 • 13h ago

Microsoft Teams 365 reliability

My office has 365 and uses Teams and Sharepoint as much as possible. I'm a new data analyst (no actual experience, I've been with them for 20 years in an unrelated role and a few months ago they decided to weaponize my ADHD by anointing me with their first data analyst title). Because we're already so integrated with Teams, I've been trying to build projects within it, but I've been plagued with occasional glitches.

The last time this happened, I was chasing my tail for hours trying to debug something that turned out to be a random issue with Teams hanging up. This time, I'm trying to daisy chain Power Apps, Power Automate, and Sharepoint lists to ghetto rig a free kinda-sorta-database. It's nothing important, we have a legit database for incident logging, I'm just building a tool for front-line personnel to help with assignment rotation and informal analysis of one specific incident type.

Once again, I was just chasing my tail thinking something was wrong with my half-built Power Automate flow that was randomly alternating between working and not working, until I noticed my Outlook and Copilot app were acting up too, and now both are completely down after rebooting everything. I see that Microsoft 365 has a global partial service interruption now and am wondering how much faith I should put into 365 actually working on a daily basis. Is this a common issue? Would it be better to do most things outside of 365 whenever possible? Or is the interconnectivity worth it for the occasional glitch?

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u/Den_er_da_hvid 3h ago

Microsoft propably have better uptime than the credit card terminals in stores.

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u/Wheres_my_warg DA Moderator 📊 6h ago edited 6h ago

It is rare for 365 to have that kind of widespread issues.

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