Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide 564
acidradio writes: "Somehow the SCCM application and image deployment server at Emory University in Atlanta accidentally started to repartition, reformat then install a new image of Windows 7 onto all university-managed computers. By the time this was discovered the SCCM server had managed to repartition and reformat itself. This was likely an accident. But what if it weren't? Could this have shed light on a possibly huge vulnerability in large enterprise organizations that rely heavily on automated software deployment packages like SCCM?"
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a good way to get rid of Malware
SCCM server reformats itself? (Score:5, Funny)
Kind of sounds like a snake eating its tail....
Configuration deplorement (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh man (Score:5, Funny)
In a résumé, "Watched in horror as images were accidentally deployed" becomes "Supervised the deployment of images on university-managed computers".
Wrong OS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like IT incompetence (Score:5, Funny)
Also known as:
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab:
Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
Re:An...accident..? (Score:5, Funny)
Might be interesting to see how the Emory Board files this away.
Re: Cool (Score:5, Funny)
I worked at Emory for years and I have no doubts this was sheer incompetence not sabotage.
Re:Sounds like IT incompetence (Score:5, Funny)
Fourth unhappy one? you're not making mistakes, you have a problem
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to love
Re: An...accident..? (Score:1, Funny)
Nailed it
Re: Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Re:backups (Score:4, Funny)
That's what RAID-5 is for, jeez.
Re:Cool (Score:4, Funny)
What no tape backup?
Look at all the money we saved!
Re:Sounds like IT incompetence (Score:4, Funny)
Fourth unhappy one? you're not making mistakes, you have a problem
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to love
What's love got to do with it?
It's a second hand emotion.