Lovely. Just lovely.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2018, at 11:13 AM, James Andrewartha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Lelio, > > It’s not just Microsoft, now Intel’s saying that the microcode updates for > some of their CPUs are faulty: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52345 > > Thanks, > > -- > James Andrewartha > Network & Projects Engineer > Christ Church Grammar School > Claremont, Western Australia > Ph. (08) 9442 1757 > Mob. 0424 160 877 > > On 11/1/18, 11:45 pm, "Lelio Fulgenzi" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks James. > > I think you hit on another issue. The fixes available may not be the last > ones. More may come. Requiring additional service impacting maintenance > windows. > > I believe there was also rumour of a Microsoft patch that broke things and > people needed to rush to fix that. > > I think with my limited understanding of the issues, we're going to focus > on inventorying things first (makes sense) and wait a bit before applying to > ensure we got them all. > > Thanks so much everyone. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 10, 2018, at 10:45 PM, James Andrewartha >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Lelio, >> >>> On 11/01/18 01:10, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote: >>> Ok. one last question (for now) >>> >>> Why BIOS updates for C Series servers? >>> >>> What do those updates address? >>> >>> The CIMC application? Or more? >> >> I believe (but haven't done heaps of research) is that the BIOS updates >> contain microcode (firmware for the CPU) updates, that with OS updates >> mitigate spectre: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301 >> >> There will be more microcode updates coming, which again might also need >> OS updates to be fully effective. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> James Andrewartha >> Network & Projects Engineer >> Christ Church Grammar School >> Claremont, Western Australia >> Ph. (08) 9442 1757 >> Mob. 0424 160 877 > > _______________________________________________ cisco-voip mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
