Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Upda tes?

From: Thomas Cameron (ThomasC@mip.com)
Date: 03/20/03

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    All -

    We are using the Windows 2000 automatic update feature on several of our
    production servers.

    One of my fellow IT team members has expressed concern that Microsoft has a
    bad history of releasing hotfixes which break servers. I can find lots of
    anecdotal evidence that this has happened, but only a very limited number of
    cases where some specific configurations were negatively impacted by hotfix
    application.

    Does anyone have any hard evidence that automatic updates are a Bad
    Thing(tm)?

    Thanks,
    Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
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    (512) 454-1844 x 307

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