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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (16 children)

If these affected systems are boot looping, how will they be fixed? Reinstall?

[–] bevan 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It is possible to edit a folder name in windows drivers. But for IT departments that could be more work than a reimage

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Having had to fix >100 machines today, I'm not sure how a reimage would be less work. Restoring from backups maybe, but reimage and reconfig is so painful

[–] bevan 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, but there are less competent people. The main answer for any slightly complex issue at work is 'reimage' - the pancea to solve all problems. And reconfig of personal settings is the users problem.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It’s just one file to delete.

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