From: "Geo." 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> What's worse is keeping tens, or hundreds, of geographically dispersed
> servers patched.  That pretty much precludes your "click to apply one"
> method.

Geographically makes no difference. I do all my patches remotely. I simply
put all the patches in one directory on one server, order them by date,
then just attach to that server (C$ or whatever) and click down the list
from any of the servers. Likewise I could setup a windows update server and
just let the servers update themselves but I prefer a more manual approach
due to downtime issues.

> I don't think MS is too different from Linux in this regard.  They're
> big enough and there's enough intracompany competition  that OS and
> IIS patches might as well be coming from different places. While you
> are downloading patches for both products from the same place, there
> is no guarantee that there was any real testing of the interactions
> done.

I can go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.asp and find
all the patches for NT/IIS/SQL/Exchange/ISA/IE

Now granted only NT/IIS/IE are included in the OS but where do you go to
find that for Linux/Apache/Netscape/KDE?

Geo.

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