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[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 150 points 1 month ago

Its a work device so I'm signed in like a good little corporate peon, still they manage to fuck it up.

[-] mech@feddit.org 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Then your IT has blocked use of the terminal and store for your account.
Which makes sense for regular users to reduce the chance of fuck-ups and rise of a shadow IT.
This isn't a Microsoft issue (except for the slightly unspecific error message).

[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its possible the IT admin misconfigured, but blocking the terminal or the store would not make sense at this company since most employees need them on a daily basis.

[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 month ago
[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 month ago

Never! Couldn’t possibly be M$’s fault! It’s definitely somehow your IT department!

[-] msage@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, it is.

They should have used Linux.

/s

[-] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago

Beautiful bug report

Expected Behaviour:

It would be pretty nice, if the terminal would open

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

That's definitely an issue with your IT department. My work Windows laptop came with the terminal accessible.

[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

I mean I was able to open the terminal just fine a few hours ago

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe they've updated their security policies? Could be to prevent users from installing unapproved software via winget, etc.

I have definitely never done that myself, if anyone asks ...

[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a MS issue, not isolated

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Yea and Usain Bolt can run real fast and you can't

You got problems buddy

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

That's an assumption

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 1 month ago

In a previous company, they roled out their update every few months. Every time, it closed all the ports we need to actually work. Make ticket, wait until IT got around to it, tell people no connection means no work. Those were the days to update documentation.

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