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Questions tagged [patch-management]

Patch Management refers to updating and patching systems, and particularly to tools and systems which automate this process for a large number of systems.

Patch Management refers to the important and never-ending task of installing software updates on systems, including the procedures involved with installing updates, defining update policies for an organization, and tools/systems to help with the patching process.

Patch Management may include patch selection methods (anything from manually reading the CVE list to automated vulnerability scans), patch deployment methods (manually installing patches, various software packages), and patch testing procedures (virtual environments, staged deployment, etc.)

Many tools (free and commercial) have evolved to help alleviate the workload. You may want to include a tag specific to the software you are using. Some examples include:

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What time of day does Microsoft Release patches on "Patch Tuesday"

I've tried my servers and they don't see the patches that Microsoft has released. Usually Windows Update automatically installs them on Wednesday, so it must be something late in the day -- yet I can't find this info anywhere on either the Wikipedia…
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best way to install package from wheezy on squeeze

I want to use doxygen on my Debian Squeeze server, but I need the version from Debian Wheezy because this apparently contains the bugfix I need. It's not in backports -- check…
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Keeping track of changes to a System during Software/Patch Installation

Let's say I'm installing a software on Windows and I want to see all the changes it has made during its installation, what is the easiest way to keep track of system changes. The change could happen in program/system files or registry etc., Is there…
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Is there a command that produces a diff of the permissions of target files?

Just as it sounds, I'm trying to find out if there is a (standard) command that will produce a diff of the permissions between two files and/or directory trees. Ideally it would put out a patch file that could be used to change permissions to match…
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Suggestions for free/cheap asset/patch management software (Adobe, Java, etc)

I am using WSUS for Microsoft patching but would like something that will inventory and patch Adobe, Java, Firefox, Quicktime, etc. I have used Lumension in the past and it was OK but it is too expensive. I have used Kaseya and don't like it.…
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What is a good patch/update management server?

Microsoft has WSUS which is great for the Microsoft products it supports (and it doesn't support all Microsoft products), but in reality companies have many applications from other vendors. Is there a patch/update management server similar to WSUS,…
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Windows Server 2008 Services won't start after patch

After installing the run of the mill patches today on a Windows Server 2008 (Running as an AD controller and Exchange 2007 Server) the machine came back up with "configuring updates stage 3 of 3 0% complete". The machine had been kept reasonably up…
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Different files of two directories

There are two directories I'd like to compare. I tried diff but it includes the changes inside the files. All I want is something like this file a is just in /A file b is missing in /A file c changed directory d is missing in /A directory e is…
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How to Minimize Linux Server Reboots

Last week there were a fair few comments on a slashdot article about whether Unix (or Linux) machines ever need to be rebooted. More than a few of the commenters mentioned having machines with uptimes of several years. As I understand it, linux…
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How do you keep aprised of important software updates?

How do you keep track of major patches for windows systems such as Flash, Reader... etc as they are released?
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Sane patch schedule for Windows 2003 cluster

We've got a cluster of 75 Win2k3 nodes at work in a coarse grained compute cluster. The cluster is behind a mountain of firewalls and resides in its own VLAN. Jobs of all sizes and types run on the cluster and all of the executables running are…
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Installing PHP 5.3 on Ubuntu server

Quite simply, what is the easiest and most stable way to replace an apt-get installed PHP 5.2 with the new PHP 5.3 on an Ubuntu 8.10 server?
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Replicating patch level from one server to another without WSUS/patch management

The scenario is: Server1 and Server2, both running Windows Server 2012 R2 at the same patch level, are currently in a load-balancing cluster. Server1 has application issues and advice is to replace it. It's been taken out of the cluster and…
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Should I use the WSUS "deadline" feature on production servers?

I use WSUS to patch a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. It usually works great, until today. Last week Microsoft shipped a critical patch KB2992611 to fix critical problems in the crypto library ("the SChannel patch"). I used the WSUS…
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How to Configure A Software Update Baseline in SCCM 2012

I have a remote site that has about 70 systems that have not been patched for the last 4 months due to the WSUS server going down and I am now just getting around to deploying SCCM 2012 there. Can one of you SCCM gurus, MCCs, MVPs, someone tell me…
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