Re: Patch testing
From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 08/21/03
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:20:04 -0700 To: Todd Schubert <todd@toddschubert.com>
In my SMB arena we post into community newsgroups and ask others what their results have been and get a "community"
view of a patch. There is usually someone who has deployed it sooner than the rest and is willing to report their
results.
Susan Bradley
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx
Find a usergroup, find a "community", find a group to share information with.
Todd Schubert wrote:
> Along the same lines...if you do have the resources to deploy some test
> servers but not to recreate every type of server in the enterprise (dc,
> web, exchange, certificate authority, db...) how should you go about
> setting up the test servers? Is there a specific area that should be
> focused on? Also how important is it to have the test servers running
> the same types of hardware as the production environment?
>
> Brei, Matt wrote:
>
> >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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