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A Best Practice approach to updating Hyper-V environments

The things that are better left unspoken — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:33:56 GMT

Updating environments with Hyper-V can be more of a challenge compared to updating an environment that

Desired Configuration Management - using Configuration packs

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:08:35 GMT

Microsoft and several vendors have created a variety of DCM configurations, or rule sets, checking for

Disable Windows Update » Updating Desired Configuration Management Baselines

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Reboot before patching

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:38:23 GMT

We've all experienced users that blame absolutely everything on patching. My personal favorite is

re: Patching in SCCM 2007

cmosby — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:46:55 GMT

Great post!!

Insurance » Patch Process Design and Communications

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re: Patch Management Process Overview

jdiaz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:10:34 GMT

I have been looking everywhere for some basics on ITMU. Great post.

Patch Management Process Overview

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:32:39 GMT

I've seen several postings recently from people just getting into SMS patching that don't know

Patch Management Process Overview

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:32:33 GMT

I've seen several postings recently from people just getting into SMS patching that don't know

Allowing selected users to postpone patching

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:59:15 GMT

Someone asked an interesting question in the mssms mailing list recently. I answered it there, and thought

re: Identifying and selecting Office patches

spruitt — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:28:43 GMT

Personally, I haven't had any problems with the fullfile patches, only with the others. ITMU defaults to fullfile. The Office scanner seems to default to it now, but didn't before the beginning of 2007.

re: Identifying and selecting Office patches

dthomson — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:15:20 GMT

For even more headaches while patching Office (or any other app) is trying to patch an install that was done in a manner that did not make use of resilient sources (when that install uses Windows Installer). You can sometimes get away with using the fullfile patch, but that's iffy at best.