Last week, an IT administrator at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) in New Zealand carried out a task to remove it from the profile PC of a student who left the university. However, he made a mistake in setting Active Directory and played a blunder that erased the profiles of all university students, faculty and staff, and staff. In short, it seems that all the PCs have been reset.
The IT administrator who noticed the situation is calling on all the people concerned not to log in to the PC because the file may be overwritten and disappear completely. I don’t know if the data remains on the PC with the profile deleted or if I intend to restore it later, but in some cases all the data such as student research treatises, data, lecture notes, etc. stored on the PC will disappear. There is a possibility that it will end up, and it seems that inquiries are flooding under the administrator.
A student who said he had only three weeks to submit his treatise said, “I’m afraid that all the data on my PC has disappeared.” In fact, some doctoral students have lost all the data they had stored on their PCs for a year. On the other hand, although the data on the file server used as a network drive may not be visible, it seems that there is a high possibility that it can be restored because there is a regular backup. OneDrive is probably safe too. Perhaps the light and dark are divided depending on the location of each user’s data.
Regardless of academic research institute or company, there is always the possibility that IT managers will be unfamiliar or even experienced people will make mistakes. It is recommended that users take measures such as backing up important data to a USB memory etc. (within the rules) and storing the same data in two places without considering it as a fire on the opposite bank.