CrowdStrike outage: Photos, videos, and tales of IT workers fixing BSODs

Vector illustration of the Crowdstrike logo.
Image: The Verge

The CrowdStrike outage that hit millions of Windows machines on Friday has left IT workers scrambling to get their organizations’ computer infrastructure back up and running. Images and stories shared online are illustrating just how tedious and overwhelming this task is.

Microsoft and CrowdStrike don’t have a way to push a fix for the issue to crashed computers. And in many cases, systems administrators can’t repair the machines remotely, either. That leaves them working in person to do things like use a Microsoft-created tool on a USB drive, delete a specific file while in Safe Mode, or restart affected computers over and over again, hoping an update comes through.

And these things must be done for every individual computer affected....

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source https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/21/24202960/crowdstrike-windows-outage-it-workers-photos-videos

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