Since Friday, I’ve been fixing the the issue where Windows computers blue screen on startup because of a bad antivirus update from CrowdStrike. The basic fix takes about five minutes. But it’s five minutes per computer that you need to have physical access to. Which means it will take days for a decent sized company to get back up and running.
Enter Microsoft. They’ve come out with a recovery tool that creates a USB stick that fixes the issue faster than either you or I can. And on top of that, if the drive is encrypted with Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption, it will prompt for the BitLocker recovery key. Which hopefully you have handy. Regardless, this will speed up getting this issue dealt with. Kudos to Microsoft for helping to fix CrowdStrike’s screw up.
You can get this tool here along with instructions on how to use it.
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Microsoft Comes Up With A Tool To Fix The Issues Caused By CrowdStrike
Since Friday, I’ve been fixing the the issue where Windows computers blue screen on startup because of a bad antivirus update from CrowdStrike. The basic fix takes about five minutes. But it’s five minutes per computer that you need to have physical access to. Which means it will take days for a decent sized company to get back up and running.
Enter Microsoft. They’ve come out with a recovery tool that creates a USB stick that fixes the issue faster than either you or I can. And on top of that, if the drive is encrypted with Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption, it will prompt for the BitLocker recovery key. Which hopefully you have handy. Regardless, this will speed up getting this issue dealt with. Kudos to Microsoft for helping to fix CrowdStrike’s screw up.
You can get this tool here along with instructions on how to use it.
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This entry was posted on July 22, 2024 at 8:35 am and is filed under Commentary with tags CrowdStrike, Microsoft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.