May 2011
Beginner
848 pages
22h 37m
English
Software updates, or patches in the common parlance, are something that everyone hates, but they have become a basic part of life in the modern computing world. We hated them and complained about them when we were UNIX system administrators some 20 years ago, and we still hate them, even though the overall process of obtaining, testing, and applying them has improved greatly. We doubt that anything we can say will make you like patches any better than we do, but in this chapter we’ll try to cover the basics to make the patch-management process as straightforward and manageable as possible. We’ll cover how Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 uses Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to enable ...