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Re: Windows Patch Management
From: "Rose, Ryan" <Ryan.Rose () UNCO EDU>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 07:18:11 -0700
Zeb, Good point, the change management forms and preparation is what takes the most time and causes the most angst. We use WSUS for our workstation environment, but due to some inadvertent installations and reboots we have stayed away from the servers. Thanks for the feedback, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Bowden, Zeb [mailto:zbowden () VT EDU] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:49 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Windows Patch Management We're using WSUS to distribute and approve the updates for our servers and have found this saves quite a bit of time. It's also pretty flexible and has decent reporting for patch status and verification. Is it the actual patching that's taking so much time and driving your admins crazy or is it the preparation for the patching (backups, testing, verification, etc)? Zeb Bowden zbowden () vt edu -----Original Message----- From: Rose, Ryan [mailto:Ryan.Rose () UNCO EDU] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:12 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Windows Patch Management Greetings, I'm curious how other institutions are conducting Windows Server Patch Management. Currently we are testing the patches in our test environment for the week following the release date. We then roll-out the updates to all productions servers over the following weekend within our maintenance windows. This takes an amazing amount of time, we believe it is best to stick to a monthly schedule but our sys admins are going crazy. Any suggestions or thoughts around this issue. Thanks in advance, Ryan
Current thread:
- Windows Patch Management Rose, Ryan (Dec 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows Patch Management Tim Lane (Dec 06)
- Re: Windows Patch Management Bowden, Zeb (Dec 07)
- Re: Windows Patch Management Rose, Ryan (Dec 07)
- Re: Windows Patch Management Gary Flynn (Dec 07)
- Re: Windows Patch Management Beechey, Jim (Dec 07)