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Windows Server 2022 - devices not booting when Secure Boot enabled (KB5022842)
Latest I've had from Dell is that it was passed up to the chain, has been looked and and they have reproduced the issue, and confirmed that servers later than 13G are not affected. Because Server 2022 isn't officially supported on 13G servers, they are not currently committing to doing anything about it, but that may change depending how many people are affected (could be next Patch Tuesday before a lot of the machines are rebooted again, and the problem shows itself). It was sugggested that it was very much dependent on how much they get contacted, and I was advised to raise it with our account manager, which I will be doing as I have a call with them anyway tomorrow. If you've got affected devices under warranty and have not yet put in a support case, sounds like it's definitely worth doing to make them aware that multiple people have the issue.
Dell are also hopeful that Microsoft will issue a patch, but didn't have any information on whether this was likely when I spoke to them.
As regards your point about stretching hardware lifecycles - yes, quite! I've just retired an R710 which was nearly 12 years old and was still working OK (running Hyper-V Server 2016 as a host for some undemanding test machines).
DavidYorkshire Its good to know that Dell is aware of this issue and at least discussing possibly resolving it. I'll reach out to our Dell rep and make them aware of how important this is to us.
"I've just retired an R710 which was nearly 12 years old and was still working OK (running Hyper-V Server 2016 as a host for some undemanding test machines)" What an interesting coincidence! In November, we retired our fleet of R710s also running Hyper-V 2016 for about 10 years and replaced them with R730s. The servers were working great even when we replaced them. We ended up replacing them because of the licensing benefits of running our cluster in a more dense configuration. We also continue to run a Dell PowerVault MD3200 in production whose storage controllers were manufactured in 2002. The quality of enterprise class hardware really is astonishing.