On this topic, I'd love to hear from some of the non-WSUS Microsoft server folks are doing. I've heard a lot about BigFix, Patchlink, St. Bernard, SMS, GFI et al. Has anyone found a product that works reliably?
-- Jim Stagg, Systems Administrator > -----Original Message----- > From: Renee Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Patch Management on Critical Servers (Healthcare) > > 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 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > --- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > >
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