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Gary S. Terhune
Did you ever stop to think that Livingston Secrets has to have something to
sell? That maybe they're a bit biased on the topic?
Automatic Updates has YET to cause me or any of my clients' machines any
problems at all. And if there ever ARE any problems, there's this great
thing called System Restore. Ever heard of it? I will say that I set the
systems to download in the background and only prompt for install, but
that's for practical reasons -- I want to control the timing and prepare the
system for a probable restart.
No, I think very few people who attend this group are of the sort your quote
describes, the sort who would have any actual *need* to do all that reading
and research. They should take the patches and deal with any resulting
issues as they come up. Then be prepared to be surprised by how well it
works.
--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com
"Smith" <smith@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ecqrEsfxIHA.5288@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in
> news:eJ5qjXdxIHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:
>
>
>>
>> Pretty ignorant if they think XP requires full-time
>> maintenance, too. That's downright hilarious coming from a
>> 98 user!
>>
>
> See "To auto-update or not to auto-update" http://window
> ssecrets.com/2006/05/25/01-To-auto-update-or-not-to-auto-update
>
> Brian Livingston there states:
>
> . Advanced users (including companies with full-time IT staff)
> should never use Automatic Updates. Professionals should first
> test Microsoft patches - and every other company's patches - on
> isolated machines. Read the free and paid versions of the Windows
> Secrets Newsletter that are published 2 days after Patch Tuesday
> with warnings of problems. Then use patch-management techniques
> to carefully install the needed upgrades to end users.
>
> Reading and paying for all of Livingston's newsletters and
> testing all of M$'s patches on isolated machines sounds like full
> time work to me.
>
> Livingston goes on:
>
> . Novice users, who can't or won't read up on reported patch
> problems before updating their machines, should leave Automatic
> Updates turned on. Beginners have a greater risk of catching a
> virus than they do of encountering a serious patch i
> incompatibility.
>
> He continues:
>
> Supporting Grandma's PC means auto-update
>
> Surely you would not suggest anyone following this group operate
> in that category.
sell? That maybe they're a bit biased on the topic?
Automatic Updates has YET to cause me or any of my clients' machines any
problems at all. And if there ever ARE any problems, there's this great
thing called System Restore. Ever heard of it? I will say that I set the
systems to download in the background and only prompt for install, but
that's for practical reasons -- I want to control the timing and prepare the
system for a probable restart.
No, I think very few people who attend this group are of the sort your quote
describes, the sort who would have any actual *need* to do all that reading
and research. They should take the patches and deal with any resulting
issues as they come up. Then be prepared to be surprised by how well it
works.
--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com
"Smith" <smith@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ecqrEsfxIHA.5288@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in
> news:eJ5qjXdxIHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:
>
>
>>
>> Pretty ignorant if they think XP requires full-time
>> maintenance, too. That's downright hilarious coming from a
>> 98 user!
>>
>
> See "To auto-update or not to auto-update" http://window
> ssecrets.com/2006/05/25/01-To-auto-update-or-not-to-auto-update
>
> Brian Livingston there states:
>
> . Advanced users (including companies with full-time IT staff)
> should never use Automatic Updates. Professionals should first
> test Microsoft patches - and every other company's patches - on
> isolated machines. Read the free and paid versions of the Windows
> Secrets Newsletter that are published 2 days after Patch Tuesday
> with warnings of problems. Then use patch-management techniques
> to carefully install the needed upgrades to end users.
>
> Reading and paying for all of Livingston's newsletters and
> testing all of M$'s patches on isolated machines sounds like full
> time work to me.
>
> Livingston goes on:
>
> . Novice users, who can't or won't read up on reported patch
> problems before updating their machines, should leave Automatic
> Updates turned on. Beginners have a greater risk of catching a
> virus than they do of encountering a serious patch i
> incompatibility.
>
> He continues:
>
> Supporting Grandma's PC means auto-update
>
> Surely you would not suggest anyone following this group operate
> in that category.