For me, business hours are 7am to 8pm this time of year, and Saturdays and Sundays are often quite busy with a Director or two in the office working. And that can be almost anytime, so I have to schedule my downtime events carefully.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the risk in having WSUS do it during non-business hours? Assume > that business hours end at 17:00. Say you log into WSUS at 16:45 and > approve your updates with a deadline of 18:00? > > Aren't the consequences of a bad patch happening during business hours > worse than the consequences of it happening at 18:00? > > Or is there something else going on that I don't know about? > > Kurt > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:11, Kennedy, Jim > <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> wrote: > > I can do many of them during normal business hours, in fact I can get it > from 40 down to 5 by paying attention to what is going on here and sneaking > them in. But when I can sneak them in is a moving target.......so having > them on another screen RDP while I multitask works well for me. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:09 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management > list... > > > > Same question I asked for Jim - why not let WSUS handle this? > > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:23, Kennedy, Jim < > kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> wrote: > >> WSUS. Set to download but not install. Then I RDP and hit install. > Saves quite a bit of time since they are already downloaded. An improvement > over what you are doing, but still not perfect of course. But I am in full > control that way. We are smaller than many people here. About 40 servers. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] > >> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 12:21 PM > >> To: NT System Admin Issues > >> Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management > list... > >> > >> What do you guys use to patch servers? I'm still in the "RDP to the > server and run Windows Update" camp. I'd love a free solution to do this > en-mass, if somebody knows one. > >> > >> > >> --Matt Ross > >> Ephrata School District > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Kurt Buff > >> [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > >> To: NT System Admin Issues > >> [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > >> Sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 > >> 08:03:50 -0700 > >> Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management > list... > >> > >> > >>> Unfortunately, I can't move quite that fast. We're pretty much a 24x5 > >>> shop, with offices overseas, and I have to give more notice than > >>> "patching now, please log off". At least I have most weekends to do > >>> this kind of thing... > >>> > >>> Kurt > >>> > >>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:24, Kennedy, Jim > >>> <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> wrote: > >>> > I am all done! Neeener neener. :) > >>> > > >>> > -----Original Message----- > >>> > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > >>> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:24 AM > >>> > To: NT System Admin Issues > >>> > Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management > >>> list... > >>> > > >>> > Yeah, I'm pushing this out as fast as I can - I'll be patching > >>> > servers > >>> tonight, and the rest of the workstations next week. > >>> > > >>> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:14, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >>> >> ...http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-RDP-Vulnerability-Exploi > >>> >> t > >>> >> -Co > >>> >> de-Confirmed-259060.shtml > >>> >> > >>> > > >>> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >>> > ~ > >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >>> > > >>> > --- > >>> > To manage subscriptions click here: > >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >>> > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >>> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >>> > > >>> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >>> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >>> > > >>> > --- > >>> > To manage subscriptions click here: > >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >>> > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >>> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >>> > >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >>> > >>> --- > >>> To manage subscriptions click here: > >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >>> > >>> > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >> > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
