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		kidbomb on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo... Lessons learned from this: - CS: Have a staging (production-like) environment for proper validation. It looks like CS has one of these bu they have just skipped it - IT Admins: Have controlled roll-outs, instead of doing everything in a single swoop. - CS: Fuzz test your configuration Anything I have missed?

mycall on July 19, 2024 | [–]

It is possible Cloudflare did a timepointed release on this. Controlled roll-outs wouldn't work if all the daily chunked updates didn't activate the kernel driver until some point in the future.

krembo on July 19, 2024 | [–]

Don't. Deploy. On. Fridays.

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