Dave, Oh my!! You need to say that again several times till folks get it. I vis at least one server a week set to "automatically install patches" ... which about 1/3 of the time results in a reboot and about 1/2 the time installs extra software or upgrades that are not needed. Unless you are using your server as a desktop do you really need the latest version of windows media player? Or the upgraded browser helper active X? If it's not a print spooler does it need spooler flaw patches (and why is the spooler service enabled in the first place)? In my view it should always be set to "download and let me choose" and then you should schedule a time to check them out and install the appropriate ones .... and even then sometimes they trip you up (security based ones in particular have a way of resulting in unintended consequences).
Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:37 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Vmware and CF 8+ This is true if you blindly install every patch released by MS, but that is a poor patch management strategy to say the least. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software Sent from my Droid On Sep 19, 2010 4:59 PM, "Chris Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote: > > true...I knew that, I think I meant more that nearly every month MS has at least one patch that requiresa reboot, rarely do I go through a patch tuesday without some critical fix... > > I saw a timeline somewhere where there are far more patches that require rebooting on the MS side - which is only to be expected as it's a full blown OS running there...as opposed to a stripped down kernel, just running what needs to be run for the one function. > >>> biggest problem with hyper-v is that service packs and >>> critical fixes that require a reboot of the underlying >>> OS means you have to reboot however many VM's are >>> running on your box too). >> >>I use ESXi myself, and to be fair to Microsoft, when a critical patch for >>ESXi is release it requires the same process (shut down the VMs and reboot >>the hypervisor). Since I deployed ESXi there has been one patch I needed to >>install and that was four months ago. Most of the patches that come out are >>related to the CLI which ESXi doesn't ship with, so they're not relevant. >> >> >>-Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337235 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
