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  • Will the last competent employee being laid off please turn out the light.
    by throwaway85825
  • Your goal should be to catch issues like the RDS hang in a scoped group of computers. The RDS failure shows up as a service that restarts or never reaches running, and the USB audio one shows up as a driver load failing or a device arrival event with no matching audio session. Both are visible in ETW (Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Process, Kernel-PnP, TerminalServices providers) within minutes of the reboot. ET Ducky has custom behavior detection by reading kernel logs and can be configured to look for things like this. You'd tag hosts for your alpha group and schedule that tag to receive the updates before any others, then regressions in the scope for your custom behavior rule would trigger an alert that you could address before the next update ring was deployed. I build ET Ducky and that is how we mark a patch as successful. If there are issues in an early deployment ring you can pause the deployment.
    by et-ducky
  • I keep hearing about how software development is a solved problem in the age of AI... and then reality hits, like we see here.
    by bakugo
  • > "The paste operation might fail silently," according to Microsoft.

    > Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024 are affected. Microsoft said: "Although users try to paste content, the source remains selected and the destination is unmodified. When this issue occurs, users receive no indication of the failure, such as a beep or error message."

    How many people wrote lgtm on the security patch?

    by htrp
  • There's a massive RDP bug in the new update that is breaking stuff with no fix right now. Congrats Microsoft on the help desk ticket generation.

    (KB5124008)

    by post_break
  • A recent update broke the file history service for me, which I only discovered when I went to restore a previous version of a file. If you use it too, you should probably check it's actually working.
    by taviso
  • Aside from the audio issue, it feels like the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. This constant slide in quality over the past few years has me looking to Linux as an option.
    by xvxvx
  • My favorite one was a few years ago when MS rolled out a Visual Studio with the login window broken. Literally, it was impossible to log in. I still cannot believe a company like Microsoft can fall so low.
    by karp773

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