Re: Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Upda tes?
From: John Jasen (jjasen@realityfailure.org)
Date: 03/20/03
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:49:19 -0500 (EST) From: John Jasen <jjasen@realityfailure.org> To: Thomas Cameron <ThomasC@mip.com>
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
> 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.
Pick a vendor that this statement doesn't apply to. I've had patches
render Windows NT unable to process logins; render SGIs unbootable; and
cause Suns to go dark.
> Does anyone have any hard evidence that automatic updates are a Bad
> Thing(tm)?
It depends on your environment. If you're a fast and loose shop, it really
doesn't matter if you're doing automatic updates or once a $time-period. A
bad one is still going to bring you down when applied.
If you have a build=>test=>deploy environment, automatic updates are
russian roulette on the deployed production boxes.
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