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Mayor Wheeler declares state of emergency due to Microsoft outage (www.koin.com)

submitted 3 months ago by jordanlund to c/portland_oregon

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[–] thouartfrugal 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not surprising to me that the city government depends so much on proprietary software, but disappointing. Wonder what kind of day that Finnish-American Portlander is having.

[–] jordanlund 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it only took CrowdStrike to bring it all down.

I don't know how close you've been following it, but CrowdStrike pushed an updated config file that contained 42kb of 0's.

On reboot, Windows machines BSOD.

[–] thouartfrugal 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not closely at all; blissfully ignorant here in the peanut gallery :) Just read up a bit:

CrowdStrike says users should boot the computer into Safe Mode or Windows Recovery Environment, navigate to the CrowdStrike directory, and delete the faulty file “C-00000291*.sys.”

I read "users" as "IT support", and "the computer" as "every affected computer in your organization". I don't envy those poor folks in IT. Well I often do actually, but not today!

[–] jordanlund 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the alternate solution is to try re-booting 15 times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If that actually worked tho everything woulda been back up and running in no time lol