Lovely stuff, thanks; I’m going to make some tea and make some notes ☺ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of the codepoets Sent: 21 October 2016 18:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Rollup Patches naming.......
My understanding is that each month will have 2 rollups on patch Tuesday. Security only and Security + Quality. The Security only are non-cumulative, the Security Monthly are cumulative. Each third Tuesday will see a "preview" rollup with the non-security updates in them that will be included in the next month's Security + Quality rollup. So, in your example, "October, 2016 Security Only" is just security updates for October for Windows 7. This will be available every month, but is non-cumulative. So every month is separate. The "October, 2016 Security Monthly" contains the security updates from the "Security Only" of the same month as well as the non-security updates from the previous month's "Preview" rollup. October is a little different as this is the first month of this. The "October, 2016 Preview" is the non-security updates preview. This rollup will be included with next month's "November, 2016 Security Monthly" update. Confusing, I know, especially with the naming. But once you get the hang of the concept, it works. Agreed on the naming conventions. Add into the mix the "Reliability Rollup" for .Net, and it's even more confusing. We have not had a higher than normal failure rate this month, outside of the fact that we had to do some quick drive cleanup because of space. We are also only deploying the full rollups (Security Monthly). If your initial failures are because of space and you are using straight WSUS, check into Express Installation Files. That should help your clients only request the bits they need. If you are using SCCM (like us) then you are out of luck on the EIFs, for now. Though I have seem it come up as a feature request to the product team. Other third party patching solutions, I don't know what their support of EIFs would be. Case by case basis, I assume. -Erik On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Stuart Watret <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: First month, I had to re-read the blogs about what we could expect. That said, the naming of them still leaves me baffled. Does anyone else have a high initial failure rate on the “Security Monthly Quality Rollup”? And really, what is the difference between all these? [cid:[email protected]] Stuart Watret
