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ShakyJake

ShakyJake

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Funny story and perhaps shows where we're headed...

Today our company pushed out a huge Windows 11 update. System literally grinded away for over 30 minutes applying updates. Finally get to desktop....can't log into Outlook or Teams. Some obscure Microsoft authentication error. Tried a few things myself to correct it, didn't work so submitted an IT ticket.

IT got in touch with me about an hour later. Gave him control of my system. He futzed around for nearly 2 hours....didn't fix anything and gave up. Told me to take it to the local office to reload it. "Son of a bitch...I JUST got this damn thing and have installed nothing significant to cause Windows to crap out. WTH".

Then I thought, you know what, worth a shot....opened up Powershell in admin mode (as a dev they do grant us admin privs), "copilot --yolo". Prompt: "Here is the error message. Do what you need to do to fix the problem."

In less than 5 minutes, Outlook and Teams working fine.
 
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