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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

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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.

Patch Deployment Strategy and Scheduling

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:44:45 GMT

How do you schedule when updates will be applied to your machines? What deployment strategy and design

Baseline Patching

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:41:26 GMT

Do you concentrate just on applying the latest updates? Do you figure that once last month's patches

Patch Deployment Strategy and Scheduling

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:09:33 GMT

How do you schedule when updates will be applied to your machines? What deployment strategy and design

Verifying Authorized Times and Setting Grace Period

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:04:10 GMT

In my earlier article, Settings for Distribute Software Updates Wizard , I said that we changed the grace

Patching Standards or Objectives

System Center Web Log by Dan Conley — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:17:31 GMT

Steve Pruitt has created a great blog post this topic. Check it out: myitforum.com/.../patching-standards-or-objectives.asp

Patching Standards or Objectives

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:03:45 GMT

When you deploy the monthly security updates, what success rate is your goal? Sure, we'd all like

Patch Management - More Than Just Deployment

Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:48:35 GMT

Many people think that patch management is just about deploying the patches, and doesn't require

Using PSExec to Remotely Patch Machines

Realtime Community | Windows Server — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:41:39 GMT

Steve Pruitt over at MyITForum puts to paper a process I've been advocating for a long time -- the idea that you don't necessarily need a fancy and expensive system to partially automate the patching process. Steve's article discusses how to use the free

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re: Using psexec to patch machines manually

Kaplaa — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:20:11 GMT

Although I am a big fan of the FOR command, this is most easily done with the free front end for psexec, EZ-Execute, which I first heard about on MyITforum.

www.penguinbyte.com/.../ezexecute

Alan

re: Patching "exception" workstations

aclendenen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:12:35 GMT

Nice article Steve! This has always been a hot button issue with SMS and I am sure others will find your advice helpful!

Regards,

Anthony

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