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Patching Production Windows Servers
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This is a poll, I'm interested in your opinions and experiences. Patching Production Windows Servers, quarterly or monthly? And what product do you use (if you use a 3rd party product)? I'm a…Continue

Tags: Microsoft Updates, Windows Server

Started this discussion. Last reply by John McGrath Aug 24, 2010.

 

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John McGrath replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
This is where 'Defense in Depth' comes into play. Patching is a necessary task, and while testing and setting schedules are best practice, there are still time windows between patch release from the vendor and patch application. Zero and…
Aug 24, 2010
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Shawn Anderson replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
Bear in mind that hard and fast policies can become valuable information to hackers. Quarterly patching may be convenient, but when you have a serious patch, including zero day and out of cycle patches, then the knowledge of your quarterly patching…
Aug 23, 2010
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Shane Corellian replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I'm generally a once per month patcher, unless there is an urgent need for a particular update.
Aug 23, 2010
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Graycat replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I patch monthly partly to keep up with the latest security patches and partly to limit how many patches I have to apply in one go. If you're only patching quarterly don't you find you're applying 100+ to each server at a time? WSUS…
Aug 20, 2010
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Phil Shannon replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
Now I wonder what I'm missing. I've been patching quarterly going back a decade. I've never been burned by not patching servers monthly, maybe I've just been lucky. It looks like the standard seems to be monthly and that WSUS is…
Aug 19, 2010
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Kev Gallagher replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I patch once a month. Our Desktops are handled by WSUS and our Servers are done via Windows Update. We patch during the third week of the month. We get a lot of questions from various quarters questioning our policy primarily from people who…
Aug 19, 2010
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Graycat replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
We patch monthly on the last Friday of the month. That way we're a few weeks behind "Patch Tuesday" and can see if there are any updates we should be wary of. Second line servers and below get the patches first with the main…
Aug 16, 2010
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Victor Green replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I agree with you in regards to Patching WIndows Servers. I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers in production and I only patch them quarterly because this gives me time to evaluate the boxes after they have been patch. for me this has been the best approach…
Aug 13, 2010
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Cole Lavallee replied to Phil Shannon's discussion 'Patching Production Windows Servers'
I do monthly, I have a maintenance schedule setup. I also get the security bulletins to make sure that I'm patching the critical patches immediately.
Aug 12, 2010
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Patching Production Windows Servers

This is a poll, I'm interested in your opinions and experiences. Patching Production Windows Servers, quarterly or monthly? And what product do you use (if you use a 3rd party product)? I'm a believer in monthly is over-kill and I prefer Quarterly patching windows. I'm looking to hear if other sys admins agree, or if not can you convince me that monthly is best. We have been using Patch Authority but I'm not a big fan of this product. Thank youSee More
Discussion posted by Phil Shannon Aug 12, 2010
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Phil Shannon replied to Cody Harlow's discussion 'How to start out in system adminstration?'
Hi Cody- I agree with some of the other comments. In the corporate desktop world Windows seems to be a clear #1. If you someday want a job supporting corporate Windows environments, learning PowerShell and/or VB Script is better than Perl. You…
Aug 12, 2010
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