We've been patching our servers with WSUS up until this point, but we'd like to move over to SCCM. I wanted to get an idea on how people are handling their 2 and 3 tier applications? Currently we have a number of different windows to patch the SQL servers, then app tier, then web tier or whatever. But what I am hoping is to make things a bit more well defined (and to start building collections for various applications and that sort of thing.)
Do you suppress reboots on servers, and then send out a script for rebooting? Do you make maintenance schedules which would cause reboots in certain order? Do you patch or reboot manually? What sorts of methodologies do you deploy? It would be nice to put a process and methodology in place so that it's not reinventing the wheel for every individual group of servers. We don't currently have SCCM in place for servers, so that's all new as well. So we sort of have a unique opportunity to start fresh. Would appreciate any feedback or ideas you have give me. Thanks, Russ
