Today is a day where I'm happy I no longer work as an IT admin

[ClippyBeer]

Recovering from the global tech outage could be a long, arduous process | CNN Business

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CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix

Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday

www.theregister.com

CrowdStrike fixes start at “reboot up to 15 times” and get more complex from there

Admins can also restore backups or manually delete CrowdStrike's buggy driver.

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Microsoft IT outage live updates: Worldwide travel and banking hit after cybersecurity update causes IT chaos

The boss of Crowdstrike says it "could be some time" before systems are fully back after a software bug triggered Microsoft outages.

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Fridays usually meant long weekends at work due to incidents like this. Today I raise many pints to the poor sods that have to deal with this.

 

[Madeleine Takam]

I bet you were laughing. Glad me and my husband are retired.

Today was the day my husband finally decided he would go with the same system, as me. I use locked down Windows 10, along with everything other program locked. Nothing ever updates or requests to update. Huge “hosts” file (13784 lines).

I feel sorry for people working from home, if they have to use the company computer, log in; And are forced into having windows update on to meet compliance. A lot of friends were ringing today - through boredom complaining “can’t work, system down, or have been told to finish early, just in case, because of IT panic” etc.

NHS was hit hard. GP’s, Prescriptions and all hospitals.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...away-as-microsoft-it-outages-hit-gp-surgeries

Windows Update, although I don’t ever have the displeasure of ever suffering it, almost seems to be Malware considering the countless work hours and billions lost because of it.

 

[Mr Siamese Cat]

Yep... Billions