Patch testing

From: Brei, Matt (mbrei_at_medclaiminc.com)
Date: 08/20/03

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    Greetings,

    I would like to get some industry wide standards or common practice for
    testing MS patches in the local environment. I am looking into
    deploying SUS or SMS but also need to set a policy for testing before
    network wide deployment. Seeing as we only have production servers and
    don't have cloned "test" server, how can a patch be tested in that local
    environment without risk of damage or loss of data? Any information
    that can be provided would be very helpful.

    TIA,
    Matt Brei
    Network Administrator

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