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Microsoft has recognized an issue with the Server Manager administration console that causes IT administrators to accidentally erase the wrong virtual disks, potentially erasing important company data. servers.
Describe the problem in a support document (opens in new tab), the company said, “when you use the Community Virtual driver, there are virtual drives that may have the same UniqueId. This can cause problems when you initiate a reset operation. The reset operation resets the first drive found. However, this may not be the drive you want to reset. This will cause that drive to lose data.”
The platforms affected by the issue are Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 and all editions of Windows 11 version 22H2.
Workaround for Microsoft Server Manager
Although Microsoft’s acknowledgment of the problem does not patch, it did provide some commands for use within Windows Powershell as a workaround. This means that you need to get more information about the drive and use the DeviceID to erase the drive instead.
“You can use the PowerShell commands below to retrieve and reset (erase) a disk.
To get details about the disks, type Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object -Property FriendlyName, DeviceID, UniqueId
Confirm the details about the drive you want to reset. Use the DeviceId of the disk as the number in the command: Clear-Disk [-Number] ”
This can be frustrating for IT administrators, who fail to wipe drives due to human error and are now being told by the tech giant to fix it themselves. The solution may be simple, but that also doesn’t explain why a solution isn’t so simple.
Microsoft has a manual workaround release form to address bugs in its software well ahead of a patch. Earlier this month it did the same for a matter inside Microsoft Outlookthe companies email customer that affect Exchange Online are organizational email provider.