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

From: Armando Ortiz (aortiz@onlinetraffic.com)
Date: 03/21/03

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To: Thomas Cameron <ThomasC@mip.com>, focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:19:23 -0800

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    On Thursday 20 March 2003 12:49 pm, Thomas Cameron wrote:
    > 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)?
    >

    http://news.com.com/2100-1002-993515.html?tag=fd_top

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