Mastering: Hyper-V™ Deployment

Distributing Security Updates

Security updates for Microsoft products are usually released on the first Tuesday of every month, Pacific Standard Time. Windows Server 2008 R2 is usually included in this. This will impact your Hyper-V infrastructure and will require some techniques to allow for automating the deployment of updates. The potential impact on a Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager infrastructure is substantial. Fortunately, this is something that Microsoft has been working on over the past few years, and it finally has a solution.

How Security Updates Impact Hyper-V

Patching of physical servers really does not compare to the potential issues you will face when patching Hyper-V in an enterprise environment. Security updates will impact ...