Desktops monthly, usually by EOM, pushed to Pilot group first, then Production
a week or so later.
Servers are Quarterly, unless Critical updates come out for Server OS's, then
we patch including all previous to the last Quarterly or last time patched.
DEV/QA environment done by EOW of patch Tuesday.
If no issues show in DEV/QA and no issues reported publicly, Production
patching follows our normal Patching Maintenance Windows, typically last full
week of the month, specific servers fall in to previously agreed outage windows
during that week.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 09:32:51 -0400
Subject: [mssms] OT: Quick poll on Windows server patching
Just curious to see if folks patch windows servers monthly, quarterly, yearly,
as needed, etc. Desktops I’m sure are done monthly across the board, for most
shops. Thanks. Mark Kent (MCP)Sr. Desktop Systems EngineerComputing &
Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State
