TABLE OF CONTENTS Microsoft Windows Server Update Services(WSUS) is the answer to all of your problems as long as they are centered on patch management. Patch management is the systematic applicationof updated code to operating systems and certain Microsoft applications, to repair a defect untilthe next version of the operating system or application is released. WSUS is the updated version ofSoftware Update Services (SUS), and can be used to manage the download, approval, scheduling,targeting, and deployment of updates to recent versions of Windows and a range of Microsoft desktopand server applications.
Picture this. You are the network administrator for weneedpatchmanagement.com. It is a beautiful Tuesday morning. The sun isshining. There is a spring in your step as you go to work. Latt in hand, you take your seat atyour desk, flip your calendar, and break into a cold sweat. Reality hits you like a freight train.This is not just any Tuesday; this is the second Tuesday of the month, what we in the business call Terrible Tuesday. It is the day that Microsoft releases its monthly batch of operating system,application, and device driver security hotfixes and updates.
The problem is that weneedpatchmanagement.com does nothave a systematic way to deploy these updates consistently across its user base. Once these updatesare released, some users religiously apply all of them, some apply some of them, and some ignoreall of them. The random pattern of updating takes place, and results in different levels ofsecurity preparedness and stability in the...
