The primary one linked there is certainly not the same issue, it was a bug in the Linux kernel's ebpf handling. It happened to be triggered by Crowdstrike, but the bug is undeniably a Linux kernel bug which was subsequently patched, as ebpf programs should never be able to panic the kernel.
That's not to say that there haven't been other Crowdstrike fails on Linux, especially pre-eBPF module, but that's not one, and that class of failures has been eliminated in the move to the eBPF based module.
Windows 10 is EOl next year. I would bet your company has plans to move to 11 at some point in the near future. I work with customers daily to help to move to 11
Apparently, because you can't seriously be asking that question. You've clearly never worked in any kind of customer support position, because businesses and individuals need all kinds of help with a transition like that.
>Apparently, because you can't seriously be asking that question.
YEs I was asking seriously. You still haven't explained what those challenges could be. All you do is mock people for their genuine questions without providing any actual answers/information to back up your vage statements.
>You've clearly never worked in any kind of customer support position
Then if that's clear for you I haven't never done that, why would you not understand I was being serious? Why are you being disingenuous here? Or you just enjoy being a troll?
> because businesses and individuals need all kinds of help with a transition like that.
Mate, 12 year-olds in my developing country can run Windows 11 updates/installs for you, including installing pirated licenses and cracks for you if you pay them 5 bucks.
What could be so complicated that the internal IT of a company can't figure out the transition from Windows 10 to 11 that they need to pay outside help for that? Especially that backwards compatibility is one of Microsoft's fortes to make life easier for admins and convince companies to stay in their ecosystem.
Many small and medium companies don't have any internal IT. Maybe the original parent commentor works for an MSP / outsourced IT services provider / as an IT consultant.
> "What could be so complicated that"
Windows 11 has hardware requirements that Windows 10 didn't, their equipment may need to be reviewed/audited or refreshed - planned, budgetted, quoted, ordered, received, checked, configured, user data migrated over for dozens of devices. Business customers need to buy Windows Pro not Windows Home - and need enough IT experience to know that, non-technical companies may have bought some Windows 11, had problems, and needed to call someone for help. A company might have some internal IT who could do it, but are busy with other projects and don't have time to plan and execute an upgrade. Windows 11 comes with new Group Policy templates which need importing to a Windows domain and configuring - and may need reviewing or auditing for regulatory compliance to see what needs setting up and the parent commentor is some kind of compliance person helping with paperwork instead of a technical person. A company might take an upgrade to Windows 11 as a time to change other things like a move to Microsoft Cloud Services (OneDrive, Microsoft account for login) and each user needs to be given a new laptop and have all their settings moved over. A company might have specialist software from vendors who aren't very progressive - e.g. optician's software which manages retina scanning cameras - and needs lots of time consuming hand holding with the vendor support line before the vendor will agree to the move, even if it would in principle work fine. Regardless of technical issues, the upgrade could take an hour or two per machine, over dozens or hundreds of machines, that's either a big interruption which needs planning (staged rollout for different departments, say) or needs some automated way to deploy it which needs setting up, testing, and checking on, and may just hire some temporary contractors for more people to do that. There may be users who could do it, but won't because it isn't their job, or aren't allowed to by their manager or union so it isn't their responsibility if it goes wrong.
I engage frequently with the Canada Education team and office 365 national reps and they are wonderful and the way Microsoft uses their own stuff to interact with their customers is a true blessing. Teach by showing instead of telling.
So, you are telling me that my girlfriend's college IT department, has the capability, through Office 360, of manipulating which folders to backup on the clients side? Man, I really hope it's Friday and my brain is exhausted and not getting what you said straight, otherwise, this weekend is gonna be a session of urgent OneDrive removal and Linux indoctrination for her.
When you log into a business Microsoft account on Windows or in Office, it asks you if you want to give your business control over the device. She might have answered “yes” to make the prompt go away (and “yes” is a sensible answer on a corporate laptop, but definitely not when using a personal laptop for work/university)
I would assume that the college IT dept is using tools made for businesses, which businesses will usually set up on machines they own (that is, not employee personal hardware), so in that case it's not unreasonable for the business to be able to set up which folders get backed up. Of course, it's never a great idea to store personal things on your work computer, for this reason and others.
But of course that model isn't a great fit for university students, who will usually not have a laptop issued by the university. Not an excuse for this happening, but I can understand how it would.
And it uses direct public access to microsofts cdn to push updates set via polices in intune or memcm. It could be the case here and it's usually used by msft customers to avoid clogging vpn with patching bandwidth
