Re: Applying patches on Windows 2000 servers

From: Mr. Schnibitz (schnibitz@microsoft.com)
Date: 08/02/02 

From: "Mr. Schnibitz" <schnibitz@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 07:07:14 -0700

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Very cost effective way to test these things out.

schnibitz
"Björn Johansson" <bjornN0$p@M@johansson.gs> wrote in message
news:eCmJyghOCHA.1060@tkmsftngp11...
> Hi!
>
> According to guides on patch deployment all updates should be evaluated
and
> tested in lab environment before deployed to a server. This is for
checking
> that the update is not affecting the system or the applications running on
> the server.
>
> My problem is that we have at lease 40 third part applications (many of
them
> critical) running on NT/W2K servers managed by one administrator.
> Unfortunaly I will never get fundings to buy extra servers (in my case I
> would say 3 servers as minimum) and the time that it costs for consultants
> to set up a our third part applications in a lab environment. Any
> suggestions? Or should I trust that uninstalling an update will restore
the
> function of the system/application?
>
> Please advice.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> /Björn Johansson, Sweden
>
>
>

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