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• Give yourself a back door

  Two for Two - The Official Blog of the SBS "Diva": http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/02/13/two-for-two.aspx A note on this. The reboot issue is seen both before and after patching at times. It's sporatic and your best proactive... Posted Feb 14 2008, 03:29 PM by The Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• Two for Two

  To minimize the impact of rebooting on the bloggers (and quite frankly to use this server as test beds for the rest of the fleet to confirm what patches are expected and what not), these two servers, Yoda and Brianna I hand patch and don't use my... Posted Feb 13 2008, 11:06 PM by The Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• New categories on WSUS and MU

  Microsoft Update Product Team Blog : But wait.......there's more.... Another new product family, Silverlight coming Tuesday, 1/22/08 !: http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2008/01/18/new-product-family-and-update-silverlight-available-to-wsus-mu-and... Posted Jan 18 2008, 09:01 PM by The Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• How Vista does it's notification

  Microsoft Update Product Team Blog : Office 2007 SP1 Update Availability: http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2007/12/13/office-2007-sp1-update-availability.aspx On Vista, if you have notify me that patches are available, you will see that the icon will... Posted Dec 12 2007, 09:45 PM by E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• Be prepared

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/12/04/net-2-and-3-service-pack-1-are-on-wsus-tonight.aspx So why do I urge caution on .net patches? Because they have historically had issues getting installed so that you have to uninstall them and reinstall... Posted Dec 07 2007, 03:30 AM by E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• .NET 2 and 3 Service pack 1 are on WSUS tonight..

  .NET 2 and 3 Service pack 1 are on WSUS tonight.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework I am not a fan of .NET patching so I wouldn't be rushing to install these and in fact would probably manually install them. Posted Dec 05 2007, 02:05 AM by E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• If I were in charge of the universe....

  Sometimes it's nice to just pretend .... what if I were in charge of the Universe. Well the first thing I would do is that I would put out a formal statement (and not just a blog post) about how I'd be planning to help the patching admins clean... Posted Oct 30 2007, 09:40 PM by E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• Casualties of the time change...

  1. I think the router on our DSL freaked ..as yesterday we lost DSL connectivity for most of the day and all night and today I had to log all the way into the DSL modem/router before it would connect to the Internet. 2. Our Ricoh copier thinks it's... Posted Oct 29 2007, 09:26 PM by E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues

• I should have gone with my gut

  I should have gone with my first instinct. I was at SMBnation and said never ever ever ever ever ever ever install a driver from Microsoft update ..and I was redoing an older machine for a temp employee and while deploying patches and doing a final manual... Posted Oct 24 2007, 08:40 PM by E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" Filed under: Patching issues