Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Using Windows Server Update Services
One of the main drawbacks to Windows security has been the difficulty in keeping servers and workstations up-to-date with the latest security fixes. For example, the security fix for the Index Server component of Internet Information Services (IIS) was available for more than a month before the Code Red and Nimbda viruses erupted onto the scene. If the deployed web servers had downloaded the patch, they would not have been affected. The main reason that the vast majority of the deployed servers were not updated was that keeping servers and workstations up-to-date with the latest security patches was an extremely manual and time-consuming process. For this reason, a streamlined approach to security patch application ...
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