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Managing multiple small businesses of which 98% of them use Outlook Classic in some form or fashion (as do I) with many Outlook Profiles and PST files for archiving and having access to their important mail or using different accounts etc… I am at a loss as to why Microsoft would push this change with a product that is NOT Ready for prime time and at a minimum ready to perform the same functionality that is available today. It seems to me that everything they seem to do these days is self serving. Most of my customers DO NOT USE M365 mail services as they use much less expensive alternatives using pop and imap. They seem to forget that we pay for Outlook Classic with the Software and subscriptions we buy and most small businesses’ do not have the infrastructure to simply run a policy change etc.. and that all of these type of events require a machine by machine visit / access to do a registry hack or toggle a switch or something like that. It is very clear that they simply do not care about Small businesses any longer which of course built them into the empire they have become. Not a day goes by that I am not more and more frustrated with their approach to their loyal base of customers.
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Having same Issues again this month on certain systems with I assume (KB5040442)
Systems End up booting to a BLACK screen and can do nothing. Mouse moves, can remote in with Splashtop, but cannot get anything working even if try to login under different profile. Tried reseting video drivers etc.. Both Dell Optiplex SFF desktops and using Dell Display Port Monitors. One 7070 and one 7080, was working fine Both Windows 11 22H2. End up spending hours trying to fix, did an image restore and still had same problem after image restore to last backup that was working (ahhhhh), SFC/scannow, until finally we can get it going and block that patch. We had the same issue last month and blocked the June patch and we are back again with the same issue when the July patch installs. Works fine all month then the update runs and back to black screen. We have to play with start and stop till we can get into RE Environment or use USB Repair stick until it gives us the option to Uninstall Updates and sometimes that will not work as it says things are pending so we need to keep going back and forth until it lets us uninstall updates which takes hours. This is very frustrating and only thing we can do is build new machine as Win 11 23H2 with updates and setup stations form scratch. Would not be so bad except it seems to be multiple systems having these problems and there is not commonality between them. I miss the old days of simply start in safe mode and uninstall patch then block it.
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This update fried one of our customers Dell Optiplex 7080.
2024-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5037771)
Ended up with black screen, After 4 hours of work trying every trick we could think of we ended up having to use blockapatch to hide this update otherwise we got stuck in a loop where it kept trying to install the patch, fail and cause black screen that we need to repair each time.
Hoping it is just an anomaly.
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Definitely an issue with KB5034441 on Windows 10 – multiple machines I test with keep having errors – Try again later when trying to install it.
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