2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.

2.5 Admins 206: CrowdStruck

August 01, 2024 30:36 26.05 MB Downloads: 0

How and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerability, and about using SAS drives with a PCIe card.

 

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A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes

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