I completely agree with the change management process, however we are not a 24x7 environment & do not have after hours or weekend shifts. At the same time we cannot take the servers offline during the day so that leaves the weekend, & coming in on the weekend to approve updates & ensure smooth multiple server reboots is a bit dull....So unattended scheduled updates & reboots is the option providing the risks are accepted, i.e. no service Monday morning because all the servers have hung.
-----Original Message----- From: Adams, Kenneth W (Ken) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 13:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now It's also good if you have a Change Management process that requires a CM record be created and approved by a review board before the actual installation occurs. Ken A., MCSA, MCSE -----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now That's good if you have a minimal number of servers. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adams, Kenneth W (Ken) Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now I'll be setting up SUS SP updates to servers, only I set my servers to download and notify, not to automatically install and boot. I keep control that way. Ken A., MCSA, MCSE -----Original Message----- From: Henderson Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now As it will only run on W2KSP2+ Clients SMS is still needed for NT4 Clients. But another question, how many here will setup SUS SP updates to Servers? i.e 100 servers all being rebooted at 3am Sunday morning ?? -----Original Message----- From: Graham Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 09:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now Have just picked up on this thread of SUS - looks a real winner would be glad for the views of the positioning of this product relative to SMS ?? GT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Free, Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:44 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now >a complete rollup with every patch released for a particular OS. There is actually a current WU beta along those lines... If history repeats, it may be available sooner than later -----Original Message----- From: Crenshaw, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:17 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS does SPs now You should see a "roll-back/recall" in SUS 2.0. I didn't hear about the SP's being available in SUS until this morning when I saw that it was something that was available to be published, so something or someone must have pulled the trigger for this to happen. Being an Enterprise customer of Microsoft, they usually go way out of their way to ensure that we know about major upcoming changes before going live with them. I guess Microsoft is tired of getting slammed with deployment problems for SP's. For anyone not using SMS, UpdateExpert, or something else along those lines, deploying SP's enterprise wide can be a task within itself. 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