Summary:
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Ingenious Solution: Rob Woltz, a senior systems engineer at Grant Thornton Australia, discovered that barcode scanners can be treated as keyboards by PCs. This insight helped resolve the BSOD issue caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update.
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Barcode Script: The team wrote a script to convert BitLocker keys into barcodes displayed on a management server’s screen. Using an off-the-shelf barcode scanner, they could quickly input the keys into affected PCs, significantly speeding up the recovery process.
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Quick Recovery: By purchasing multiple barcode scanners, the team managed to fix hundreds of PCs and 100 servers by lunchtime on Monday. The method proved efficient, requiring only three to five minutes per PC and about 20 minutes per server.
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