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Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Unlike with other OSes Microsoft releases all of their patches on Tuesday at around the same time in one big batch. I spend my Tuesday morning reading the patch descriptions and selectively applying them. A method that hasn’t failed me once.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah, I'm using Ninja on about 120 boxes. It's set to auth critical only. If someone reports a problem, we'll go ahead and blacklist that update temporarily while we sorted out even though it's semi-automated they never happen all at once there's always a couple of canaries that get up a little early.

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