Help us prioritize what is top of mind for you with regard to Windows Updates. Here are some of the topics that IT pros have brought to our attention in recent months:

•          Windows Security Updates
•          Windows Update Rollups
•          Windows Hotfixes
•          Windows Service Packs
•          Windows Cumulative Updates
•          Quality of Windows Updates
•          Testing Windows Updates in my IT environment

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Thanks

Hi, the most important matter when talking about Wsus is the need of restarting Servers after applying updates.

It's not always easy to restart a server during working hours.

The second thing, some small/medium enterprises uses Wsus to update third party softwares (like Adobe Reader, Java and so on). Local Publishing, need to be keep active on future release of Wsus. And some improvements can be made (like managing detectoids)

Hi David,

Reboots are very disruptive especially for servers. We've tried many different approaches to reduce or eliminate reboots and have eliminated many of them over time, but at the core there is a very hard problem: how can code execute rapidly to fulfill user/business tasks and at the same time change to a new version? Code can only be updated if it is not running and there are parts of the operating system that never stop running except during a reboot - for instance, the kernel and some drivers. I'll add "Managing reboots" to the forums to see if there is interest from other IT pros for a deep dive discussion on this topic

I wonder why you mention restarting a server during working hours. Many IT environments use maintenance windows (days or times at which servers are least used) for reboots. This could be on sunday at 3 am for instance. Reboots can be scheduled to happen during those time windows so that users and business processes are not affected. Does this not work for you?

Thx

Thierry

Created new topic here. Please vote and comment if interested in a deep dive discussion

Hi Thierry,

"I wonder why you mention restarting a server during working hours. Many IT environments use maintenance windows (days or times at which servers are least used) for reboots. This could be on sunday at 3 am for instance."

In fact, we are using some poorly developed application that needs to be manually launch once we have opened a Windows session. So, we cannot afford to schedule a reboot at night.