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[News] Mass IT Outage



Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
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Oct 27, 2003
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The arse end of Hangleton
seems like there was a major Azure outage overnight as well, unclear if directly related or coincidence.
Some Azure functions have APIs into Crowdstrike so it's very likely to be the same issue.
 




jcdenton08

Offended Liver Sausage
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Oct 17, 2008
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RandyWanger

Je suis rôti de boeuf
Mar 14, 2013
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Done a Frexit, now in London
Mac admin here in peace :ROFLMAO: wouldn't have known there was an issue if I didn't try log onto NSC first thing. I sent a few Slacks letting the company know there was a mass global outage and to not disturb me, told my (non technical) boss to leave me alone and have had a lovely morning sat out on the patio catching up on yesterday stage of the Tour de France and winding up my mate who works at Mercedes F1 who's been in the paddock since 5am and unable to do anything as their sponsor CrowdStrike broke their systems.
 




Midget

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Aug 16, 2015
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All seems to be working fine for us except, somewhat ironically, our IT support team who use Azure.

:laugh:
 






beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
35,859
simple fix apparently, delete/change a file name to stop the doom loop and get back into Windows.


now just have to apply over whole desktop and server estate...
 


Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Back in Sussex
simple fix apparently, delete/change a file name to stop the doom loop and get back into Windows.


now just have to apply over whole desktop and server estate...
Simple if you have one PC in front of you and you have admin rights to do that.

Less simple if you have thousands of machines spread far and wide, and the users of those machines lack either the admin rights and/or the technical confidence to operate a command line.
 




wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years
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Aug 10, 2007
13,830
Melbourne

What I gather from this is that infrastructure and communication in Australia is built on Microsoft Office products. That's certainly one way to build society...
I’m sat here reading this thread on an iPad, while watching Britain’s Got Talent on the TV (wife’s choice of course). Both of these happening whilst using a VPN. Comms seem OK my end.
 








BBassic

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Midget

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Aug 16, 2015
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Simple if you have one PC in front of you and you have admin rights to do that.

Less simple if you have thousands of machines spread far and wide, and the users of those machines lack either the admin rights and/or the technical confidence to operate a command line.
BBC now reporting it can't be fixed remotely and needs a "hands on keyboard" reboot of every affected computer.

Crowdstrike have 24,000 customers worldwide.

Customers, i.e. companies. Each with many, many end users.

What a shitshow.
 


deletebeepbeepbeep

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May 12, 2009
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BBC now reporting it can't be fixed remotely and needs a "hands on keyboard" reboot of every affected computer.

Crowdstrike have 24,000 customers worldwide.

Customers, i.e. companies. Each with many, many end users.

What a shitshow.

Yeah...this ain't getting fixed for a lot of people until next week.
 


Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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BBC now reporting it can't be fixed remotely and needs a "hands on keyboard" reboot of every affected computer.
That was my (badly-made) point.

One PC in front of you where you have admin rights = easy

Hundreds or thousands of PCs (including servers) spread all over the place, and no-one local having admin rights = less easy.
 








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