Last year, our college campus was hit with an unclassified virus. After the hours it took to manually run around and patch 1000+ computers, our upper management finally approved a WSUS server. Knock on wood, it has run beautifully, and keeps our desktops and servers patched. As far as actually getting the updates applied and rebooting, we have standard times posted that the server may be unavailable due to routine maintenance. After last year's scare, everybody seems to be OK with this slight inconvience. We aren't regulated as much as the healthcare field, but do still have standards to meet for state and federal funding. As long as the president of the college supports our practices, we don't have much to worry about.
Renee Network Manager -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Patch Management on Critical Servers (Healthcare) Hello I'm just curious to hear how people in the field have been handling patch management with critical servers. Have you setup maintenance windows? If, so how did you manage the down time? What have people been doing if the device or server has an approved FDA configuration? Are you using thing like WSUS? Thanks, Matthew Security Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
