Re: Anyone have hard evidence of problems with Windows Automatic Upda tes?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Thomas Cameron wrote:

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> One of my fellow IT team members has expressed concern that Microsoft has a

Pick a vendor that this statement doesn't apply to. I've had patches render Windows NT unable to process logins; render SGIs unbootable; and cause Suns to go dark.

> Does anyone have any hard evidence that automatic updates are a Bad

It depends on your environment. If you're a fast and loose shop, it really doesn't matter if you're doing automatic updates or once a $time-period. A bad one is still going to bring you down when applied.

If you have a build=>test=>deploy environment, automatic updates are russian roulette on the deployed production boxes.

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