Server incorrectly sends OS reformat request to all PCs in the university

Emory UniversityIs a private university headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. To the nationThere are more than 4500In the university,Ranked in the top 20 schoolsAlthough Emory University is also a difficult school to do, university server has sent an OS reformatting request to any PC or server equipped with Windows 7 in the school.

Emory LITS: Information Technology | Windows 7 incident
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Emory Accidentally Sends Reformat Request to All Windows PCs
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Whoops! Emory University server sent reformat request to all of its Windows 7 PCs - Neowin
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Emory University entitled 'Windows 7 incident (accidental incident in Windows 7)', Windows 7Deployment· I revealed that the image file was sent to all Windows 7 equipped terminals including desktop, laptop PC and server in the university. It seems that re-partitioning and reformatting request of OS was incorporated in this transmitted deployment image file.

Emory University that reformatted all Windows 7 is such a university.

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After this incident was discovered, Emory University seems to have turned off the SCCM server as soon as possible, but at that time it was said that the server had already re-partitioned and reformatted the server. After that, the university seems to be about to restore the server, but it seems that it takes a long time to restore, and it seems that they succeeded in restoring the server to the original state by seeking help from a technical adviser somehow.

At the university, we sent to each student a specialist staff to return the computer to an operable state, it seems that they helped to install the necessary software, and when some other problem arises, the university side It seems that it fully supported it.

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In addition, Emory University uses USB memory andLANDESK,PXEWe have also announced that we have prepared the environment around the PC so that we can restore the PC environment with a single touch by making use of such as.

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