What's the risk in having WSUS do it during non-business hours? Assume that business hours end at 17:00. Say you log into WSUS at 16:45 and approve your updates with a deadline of 18:00?
Aren't the consequences of a bad patch happening during business hours worse than the consequences of it happening at 18:00? Or is there something else going on that I don't know about? Kurt On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:11, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > I can do many of them during normal business hours, in fact I can get it from > 40 down to 5 by paying attention to what is going on here and sneaking them > in. But when I can sneak them in is a moving target.......so having them on > another screen RDP while I multitask works well for me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:09 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... > > Same question I asked for Jim - why not let WSUS handle this? > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:23, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> > wrote: >> WSUS. Set to download but not install. Then I RDP and hit install. Saves >> quite a bit of time since they are already downloaded. An improvement over >> what you are doing, but still not perfect of course. But I am in full >> control that way. We are smaller than many people here. About 40 servers. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 12:21 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... >> >> What do you guys use to patch servers? I'm still in the "RDP to the server >> and run Windows Update" camp. I'd love a free solution to do this en-mass, >> if somebody knows one. >> >> >> --Matt Ross >> Ephrata School District >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Kurt Buff >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 >> 08:03:50 -0700 >> Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... >> >> >>> Unfortunately, I can't move quite that fast. We're pretty much a 24x5 >>> shop, with offices overseas, and I have to give more notice than >>> "patching now, please log off". At least I have most weekends to do >>> this kind of thing... >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:24, Kennedy, Jim >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I am all done! 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