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I'm pleased the error message actually mentioned exactly what's wrong.

Compare the two snippets in [1]:

> Description: The FIP-FS "Microsoft" Scan Engine failed to load. PID: 23092, Error Code: 0x80004005. Error Description: Can't convert "2201010001" to long.

> Description: The FIP-FS Scan Process failed initialization. Error: 0x80004005. Error Details: Unspecified error.

I hope it's trend that continues because when it's going pear shaped every little morsel of information is important to narrow down the problem.

I'm less pleased they seemly didn't deploy this update to an internal on-prem test Exchange server before a wider release.

[1]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/em...

> I'm less pleased they seemly didn't deploy this update

Is there actually an update here, or just some code that was probably sitting around for years until 2022 rolled around?

AFAIK it was a signature update, and the existing code couldn't understand the new signatures with a 2022 timestamp. IMHO, signatures still should have been deployed to an early ring before broad release.

Antimalware signatures as code, anyone?

These kinds of things are always tricky, and always easier to see in hindsight. Everything is a trade-off.

I can easily picture a scenario where there is pressure to reduce time to release signature updates, and someone looked at a process where there was early testing (that would have caught this) and said "Over the past 5 years, we've deployed hundreds of signatures with exactly zero failures; why are we still doing this process that adds a pointless delay?"

> when it's going pear shaped

I think this means “when it’s going bad”, but what does “pear shaped” mean? And why a pear?

It originated in the British Royal Air Force where an imperfectly-executed loop-de-loop would go 'pear shaped' instead of round as intended. Interestingly it then played off the British tendency for understatement so that something that meant 'a bit wonky' slid into meaning 'off the rails busted'.

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