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As the world wakes up to a "digital pandemic", Microsoft suggests turning it off and on again 15 times


The error may have been fixed, but you'll need to push the power button a fair few times according to Microsoft

Azure servers are affected, and consequently, Microsoft 365 apps, with the website's most recent update instructs users to reboot as many times as it takes to get the fix working. See, the driver hooks the function by patching the system call table, so it's not safe to unload it unless another thread's about to jump in and do its stuff, and you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory." Microsoft has since suffered a separate outage due to the configuration change in the back end of Azure's settings, which has been fixed, but you may need to go through many restarts to see an improvement.

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