Best Practices

  • Subscribe to security update and service pack notification services. Notification services assist you in identifying recently released security updates and service packs, enabling you to deploy the updates or service packs in a timely manner.

  • Assess your network to determine which computers require the security update or service pack. A security update or service pack might not be applicable to all computers on your network. You must identify which computers will require the update or service pack.

  • Obtain security update or service pack installation files from download locations. Depending on which operating system or application is affected by the security update or service pack, you must connect to the appropriate Web site to ...

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