Microsoft stops strange ‘FCM Messages’ notifications on Microsoft Teams
People received random test notifications on Microsoft Teams yesterday.
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What you need to know
Microsoft Teams users received an unwelcome series of notifications yesterday. The mysterious notifications read “FCM Messages Test Notifications!!!!” Some people received the message several times, withone person on Twitter statingthey received 14 notifications within a couple of hours. Microsoft investigated the issue and has sinceapplied a mitigation.
TheMicrosoft 365 Status Twitter account statesthat the issue only affected Android devices. Thursday afternoon, theaccount sharedthat Microsoft had “isolated the source of the issue and applied a mitigation.”
Twitter user Paul Tuck shared a screenshot of the odd notifications.
Sure here’s a screenshot I took of, complete with too many exclamation marks and too many S of both Notifications and Messagespic.twitter.com/6DZJcuoCh4Sure here’s a screenshot I took of, complete with too many exclamation marks and too many S of both Notifications and Messagespic.twitter.com/6DZJcuoCh4— Paul Tuck (@Hobbes330)August 27, 2020August 27, 2020
The notifications didn’t seem specific to any timezone, so some people received the notifications in the middle of the night.
While notifications like this shouldn’t be sent out, you can make sure that you don’t receive any notifications in the middle of the night bychanging your status on Microsoft Teams.
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