Microsoft Teams services are down, as thousands of users report issues

Microsoft Teams is experiencing a service outage that has blocked access and limited features for some users. 

The outage began Friday at around 11 a.m. Eastern, with reports of technical issues growing rapidly in scope later in the afternoon and peaking shortly before 2 p.m. More than 14,500 service incidents were reported by then, outage tracker DownDetector's data shows. It's unclear how many users are affected by the outages. 

Microsoft did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch's request for comment.