Teams Q&A Planned Maintenance

Teams Q&A will undergo three planned maintenance windows starting September 13, 2025, each lasting about 12 hours. During these times, it will be in read-only mode, preventing creation, editing, or interaction with Q&A content. Maintenance occurs outside normal business hours to minimize impact.

Planned Maintenance: Teams Q&A

To ensure continued reliability and performance, Teams Q&A will undergo planned maintenance. During this period, Teams Q&A will operate in read-only mode. This is the first of three planned maintenance windows.

We have maintenance planned for Teams Q&A:

• Maintenance Window: Starting Saturday, September 13th, 2025 at 16:00 UTC. The maintenance window will last approximately 12 hours. This is the first of three planned maintenance windows scheduled:
  • Saturday, September 13th, 2025 at 16:00 UTC
  • Saturday, September 20th, 2025 at 16:00 UTC
  • Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 16:00 UTC

How this will affect your organization:

During this maintenance window, Teams Q&A will operate in read-only mode. Users will be able to view Q&A messages, but will be unable to:

• Create meetings, Town halls, or webinars with Q&A added
• Turn Q&A off/on in meeting options
• Edit Q&A engagement settings 
• Reply or react to Q&A messages
• Perform any other write-related actions

When users attempt these actions during the maintenance windows, they will see error messages such as:

• "Your message wasn't posted, please try again soon."
• "Sorry, something went wrong, please try again soon."

This maintenance is planned outside of normal business hours to help minimize any impact to your organization.

For organizations with users around the globe, we recognize that "outside of normal business hours" might affect you differently. We apologize for the impact this may have on your users. We are working hard to improve Teams Q&A and to minimize these maintenance windows.

What you need to do to prepare:

During these planned maintenance windows, please plan accordingly. No specific workaround is applicable.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

Thank you, The Teams Q&A Team