I find a lot of potential problems don't manifest themselves until the next restart. FWIW I have patched about 50 servers today and I haven't had any failures yet. I have snapshots of each one should something bad happen however, but so far, everything looks cool...
2008/10/24 Oliver Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fancy detailing the Sh*t ? > > So far we have various from workstation users reporting that IE crashes > at the drop of a hat (a large number of those, running XP mainly, but > also vista. We have a server with IIS issues, another which rebooted > this morning and then had errors about the raid driver, before loosing > its hard disks (ohhhh shhhh*t etc). Another whos DHCP service now fails > to start on each restart of the box. > > Again, could all be unrelated, but its just odd that each machine > rebooted at 3am for the update. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John A. Shaw-Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 October 2008 11:59 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ? > > No I have some customers who are in the sh*t as well .... > > John Aaron Shaw-Miller MBCS KtGC OBE > IT Consultant, Infrastructure & Exchange Specialist > Member of the Microsoft IT Advisory Council > > Mobile: 07896 740 712 > Home Office:01952 400511 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: www.servtec.co.uk > > > > Remember, inside every old person is a young person wondering what > happened.. > > idea=`grep -i clue /dev/brain` ; test -z "$idea" && echo "sorry, init 6 > in progress" || sh ./clooless > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 October 2008 11:52 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ? > > Chaps, > > The update that was sent out last night, has that caused any issues > elsewhere? We've had a spate of calls from users about problems today, > several servers which were set to auto-update for various reasons have > had varying levels of failure. It's mentally busy here for a Friday, and > the one thing they have in common is that all the machine rebooted for > an update last night. > > Is it just us ? > > Olly > > -- > G2 Support > Online Backups > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.g2support.com > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
