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  • Reboot before patching

    We've all experienced users that blame absolutely everything on patching. My personal favorite is the person who blamed us for the problem that started just after she received my email announcing that patches would be applied the following week. Many of the reports are more reasonable, because the...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 12-20-2007
    Filed under: Patching, Exception machines, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy, reboots, Software Updates

  • Patching and Communications

    Patch Management is only partly a technical activity. Good communications are at least as important, if not even more so. No matter how well you designed your deployment plan to support the needs of your business, you need to communicate effectively with the right people each month to be successful....
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 10-21-2007
    Filed under: Patching, Exception machines, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy, reboots, communications

  • Patch Process Design and Communications

    Have you ever designed a patching process, only to find that users and managers complained after you implemented it, and no one supported you? Good planning and communications with the right people help assure that you develop a good plan, that the plan is approved by everyone concerned, and minimize...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 10-21-2007
    Filed under: Patching, Exception machines, Patch Management, patch scheduling, Patch deployment strategy, reboots, communications

  • Patching Standards or Objectives

    When you deploy the monthly security updates, what success rate is your goal? Sure, we'd all like to patch all of the machines every month, but that usually isn't practical. As in many areas, the last one percent can cost as much money and resources as the first 99 percent. The last one tenth...
    Posted to Steve Pruitt at myITforum.com (Weblog) by spruitt on 07-19-2007
    Filed under: Patching, psexec, Do Not Patch machines, Exception machines, Patch Management
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