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Programmer HumorYou mean to tell me running sfc /scannow and DISM.exe didn't fix the problem?
How is LibreOffice looking right now, huh?
Completely sloppified.
Almost as good as WordCraft.
I feel a little bad for abandoning all the FOSS versions of software I've learned over the years (GIMP, Inkscape, FreeCAD, LibreOffice, Kdenlive) but I'm having a lot of fun learning the SlopCraft stack
WordCraft should be called WordSlop
i'm afraid that's already taken by microslop word
Around 2am CST my work emails started coming through again. Can't wait to see how they spin this.
My prediction is that this is going to be spun in a way that's like, "See? We need more hyperscale data centers so this type of thing doesn't happen!"
I went mushroom picking. This is how I hear that there's an ~~outrage~~ outrage*. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Go back to foraging, it's better than this.
It's an outrage!!!
I wish my company were doing something important enough to get outraged by this and I could finally pitch them installing a local server.
Well, that didn't happen and I was the only one most inconvenienced by it despite not have anything on OneDrive.
I hope there is someone proposing to format en reinstall Windows like their forums always suggest for minor issues.
Is this not how ansible and infrastructure as code is supposed to kind of work? If an instance acts up, kill it and redeploy?
Switch to Linux!
That's always my recommendation to friends with windows problems. 15% of the time it works every time.
Reintalling Windows surprisingly solves those minor issues, however doing a reinstall just for that is insane.
Well, if the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
They need to contact the system administrator
So all of our emails are gone, right?
Haha, I got to work and its still broken. I read about this last night and though damn why must it happen after I finished work.
Its STILL down! At least they can still claim 99% uptime I guess.
Two nines is a terrible quota.
Its not up yet, who knows, 1 nine would be very funny.
Pretty soon, we'll be asking how many eights Microsoft has.
Copilot, fix this outage, make no mistakes
...what? You say copilot is down too? Call the engineers. Where are they anyway?
...laid off you say?
Copilot, do not ask again also.
It probably won’t be said officially but what are the chances this is due to some vibe coded slip?
It's just a big coincidence that software quality slipped at all the major software vendors in the last year or so.
100%.
"But Doctor, I am Pagliacci."
Rumors are circulating that physical hardware is the issue and thats why they cant bring them back. They either bricked their servers so they wont boot or something catastrophic happened that damaged the hardware
So, they were forced to buy new hardware after their latest update but, like most of the rest of us, they refused? /s
Someone set a datacenter on fire.
We can only wish for such good news. However, I'm surprise noone has done that yet.
So will MS have to rent compute from Amazon or Meta?
Have they try turning it off and on again?
You mean to tell me running sfc /scannow and DISM.exe didn't fix the problem?
defrag c: /f /v
They should press F1 and follow the help instructions
Wow, that brings back memories. Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue. Imagine if that was still the case in modern infrastructure. "Boss, gotta reboot the server farm, I'll take my keyboard and be back in the office in a week."
Because you did it the wrong way round! DISM first, to have a good image to compare against THEN run sfc to compare your system to that image
Microsoft Outage - heck yeah, that's their new flagship product!
This kind of outage could have been prevented if we just centralized everything HARDER.
/s, right?
SMTP is about as simple as it can get. There’s no good reason for mail delivery to be affected. It should still be moving emails around even if you can’t access them.
But MS has extended SMTP so hard they have no idea how it works anymore or how to properly troubleshoot it.
SMTP is about as simple as it can get
Tell that to the "senior network engineer" I am trying to get to unblock SMTP for the server running our software on their network. Its coming up to 2 weeks now.
“Blame the network”
The problem with SMTP is that it is too simple. There is a complete lack of security, so different implementations have had layers added on top to harden them, which adds to the complexity. Not all layers are standardised or compatible, which means that what should be relatively simple becomes an untenable mess.
It isn’t something that can be proprietarised easily so companies need to also add their own proprietary layers in order to monetise their product, which adds more untenable.
If your “senior network engineer” is more concerned about your SMTP server becoming a SPAM relay than your product being usable for its intended purpose, which is why it is still down.
A spam relay quickly becomes unusable.
The app server isn't running the SMTP server, it can't connect to one. We would also be happy for them to run their own SMTP server and point it at that instead if they wish.
I would assume they've broken their DNS servers or some other similarly low-level infrastructure to the point where something just isn't resolving behind the scenes anymore.
Just rollback to the last known good backups...
They do have backups, don't they?!
Who disabled shadow copy??? No restore points either????
Why don't they just ~~ask Copilot~~ tell the agents to fix it?? Oh, they did?
Copilot understood the instructions. Delete the system, no more bugs.
Removed System32
Should just post a question on Microsoft community support.
"Hello, I'm a verified microsoft support agent, here to help you with your request! [3 paragraphs of boilerplate] Have you tried turning it off and on again? If you think this was helpful, don't forget to rate me 5 stars!"
Clearly a fake.
Didn't even recommend »sfc /scannow«.
First step is to reinstall windows on an clean, formatted SSD. Obviously
"with 7 years experience"
The technicians who haven't been fired yet are probably waving a green papier-mache progress bar in front of their bosses' faces whilst insisting they're looking for a solution
Time to just FFR
(FDISK Format Reinstall, the old way to fix Microsoft problems)
Just switch it off, wait a few seconds, then switch it on again. It's not hard.
Linksys sure did make pretty routers. Those WRT54Gs were iconic
You have to run it in the clou...
defrag
diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
clean all
This will solve it!!!
So glad I wasn’t working today.
I wasn't working either. I mean, I was at my desk, but I wasn't working
Depending on your job it could mean a pretty light workload.
I woke up to alert messages from my company. Logging in now to see how little work I have to do this morning 🤗
5 emails instead of 100+, this last weekday is smiling upon me.
Sadly my Teams seems to be working intermittently, and I can access the documents I need to read on SharePoint, so not a complete write off. Still, no emails, and especially no Jira notifications is a blessing.
I shut everything down and went to touch some grass. I'll just tell everyone next week that I couldn't log in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seeing Teams online was a let down for sure. I'm not sure how the company would communicate without it. Would have been hilarious.
My conspiracy theory was this this was a deliberate attempt to force users to actually start using Teams instead of email.
The problem with this ploy is that even email that doesn’t work is more useful than Teams.
Hahaha it seems to be working, Teams here is abuzz!
I got a text message from Microsoft at 2am
Maybe they tried to move stuff from Linux onto windows servers or they’re running defrag.
