Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide

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Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 17, 2014 @01:30AM from the that-qualifies-as-a-bad-day dept.

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?"

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Cool by rossdee · 2014-05-17 01:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Sounds like a good way to get rid of Malware
1. Re: Cool by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-17 02:56 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I worked at Emory for years and I have no doubts this was sheer incompetence not sabotage.
2. Re: Cool by Noah+Haders · 2014-05-17 04:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I like to think it was the SCCM server itself that said fuck you all I've had enough. I'm pushing the red button and we're all going down.
3. Re:Cool by RabidReindeer · 2014-05-17 08:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  What no tape backup?
  Look at all the money we saved!
SCCM server reformats itself? by Rick+Zeman · 2014-05-17 01:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Kind of sounds like a snake eating its tail....
Configuration deplorement by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-05-17 01:36 · Score: 4, Funny

The configuration deployment server apparently upgraded itself into a configuration deplorement server.

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Re:Oh man by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-17 01:58 · 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 by Air-conditioned+cowh · 2014-05-17 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

It reformatted the drives and put Windows on them. Eeewww! That's gross!
Re:Sounds like IT incompetence by rastos1 · 2014-05-17 02:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Also known as:
Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab:
Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
Re:An...accident..? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-17 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Might be interesting to see how the Emory Board files this away.
Re:Sounds like IT incompetence by bitt3n · 2014-05-17 03:15 · 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

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Re: An...accident..? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-17 04:04 · Score: 1, Funny

Nailed it
Re:backups by Gothmolly · 2014-05-17 08:02 · Score: 3, Funny

That's what RAID-5 is for, jeez.

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Re:Sounds like IT incompetence by labnet · 2014-05-17 09:51 · Score: 3, 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.

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