DISM.exe?
Did you mean... Dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth
Dism/online/cleanup-image /restorehealth
Then do your sfc/scannow
And throw in a chkdsk /f for fun.
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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 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.
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I went mushroom picking. This is how I hear that there's an ~~outrage~~ outrage*. ¯\(ツ)/¯
unrelated, but the correct format is ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯, you need to escape both the backtick and the underscores. technically you can leave the second underscore unescaped but it might couple to a random other one and turn half your comment into italics
anyway, hope the mushrooms are nice
You butchered it as well, silly
i typed ¯\\\\\\\_(ツ)\\\_/¯ to render as ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ to communicate that if you type ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ it renders as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Go back to foraging, it's better than this.
It's an outrage!!!
They need to contact the system administrator
Well, if the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
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.
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."
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.
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
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.
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So all of our emails are gone, right?
Microsoft Outage - heck yeah, that's their new flagship product!
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."
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