Emory U. machine mass reformats network machines, self

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Emory U. machine mass reformats network machines, self
Date	2014-05-17 20:09 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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From the «undo-undo-undo-undo-UNDO-FUCKING-UNDO-DAMMIT» department:
Title: Emory University server accidentally sends reformat request to all Windows PCs, including itself
Author: Emil Protalinski
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:17:38 -0400
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/Rxr0LXAAEf4/
Podcast Download URL: http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/03/frustrated-at-work-520x245.jpg

Have you ever reformatted a computer and then immediately realized you
shouldn’t have? Well, an “accident” at Emory University this week will make
your mistake look like a brilliant, carefully considered decision. Here’s the
crux of what happened: A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to
all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This
image started with a repartition/reformat set of tasks. As soon as the
accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that
time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted. What did
we learn today? Always backup. Backup...

This story continues[1] at The Next Web[image 3][2][image 5][4][image 7][6][image 8]

Links:
[1]: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2014/05/16/emory-university-server-accidentally-sends-reformat-request-windows-pcs-including/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed (link)
[2]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?a=Rxr0LXAAEf4:OHlU6z1U4zw:D7DqB2pKExk (link)
[3]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?i=Rxr0LXAAEf4:OHlU6z1U4zw:D7DqB2pKExk (image)
[4]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?a=Rxr0LXAAEf4:OHlU6z1U4zw:yIl2AUoC8zA (link)
[5]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (image)
[6]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?a=Rxr0LXAAEf4:OHlU6z1U4zw:V_sGLiPBpWU (link)
[7]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?i=Rxr0LXAAEf4:OHlU6z1U4zw:V_sGLiPBpWU (image)
[8]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~4/Rxr0LXAAEf4 (image)

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Emory U. machine mass reformats network machines, self RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 20:09 +0000
  Re: Emory U. machine mass reformats network machines, self David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-05-19 22:54 -0700

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