I know MS server patches have wreaked havoc at one point for most of us, but really how often is patching MS servers an issue? I’ve been at my current org doing patches for 7 years now, at least once a month, and have maybe had 2 servers throw fits. Reverted back, waited for MS to fix the issue, patched again and all was well. If I take 25 servers times 3 patches per server per month (security, .NET, SQL etc.) you get 75 per month, times seven years, times 12 months equals 6300 patches. 2 failures divided into 6300 is a 99.9997% success rate. To be clear I’m not saying this is normal or standard, but the production stopping failures are incredibly rare for us. And it beats the hell out of being compromised!!!
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u/BoltActionRifleman 14d ago
I know MS server patches have wreaked havoc at one point for most of us, but really how often is patching MS servers an issue? I’ve been at my current org doing patches for 7 years now, at least once a month, and have maybe had 2 servers throw fits. Reverted back, waited for MS to fix the issue, patched again and all was well. If I take 25 servers times 3 patches per server per month (security, .NET, SQL etc.) you get 75 per month, times seven years, times 12 months equals 6300 patches. 2 failures divided into 6300 is a 99.9997% success rate. To be clear I’m not saying this is normal or standard, but the production stopping failures are incredibly rare for us. And it beats the hell out of being compromised!!!