Mayor Wheeler declares state of emergency due to Microsoft outage
Mayor Wheeler declares state of emergency due to Microsoft outage
CrowdStrike fucked up big time didn't they?
Oh, man, it's bad. Been on a call at work all day.
Damn. Did you catch the quick fix?
CrowdStrike Fix 1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or WRE. 2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike 3. Locate and delete file matching "C-00000291*.sys" 4. Boot normally.``` Edit: I'm not even about to figure out the formatting glitch here, this information just needs to be shared to help fix the problem.
Wow...who could have predicted eggs in one basket is a BAD idea.
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.
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.
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!
Happy to say we have absolutely zero windows installations at my company. I feel like I have to be vigilant about keeping it that way. We do use crowdsteike but Linux for servers and containers and macOS for desktop clients.
We had a major service running on the Azure cloud that was impacted. :( It was back up by Saturday, fortunately.
The whole "reboot into safe mode" was complicated by being in the cloud and further complicated by BitLocker. But we got it done!