PSA: The NSA says PATCH your Windows machines
It’s not often that the NSA feels so compelled about a 3rd party patch that it makes an official announcement on it’s website for the public to take…
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No patches showing up for VMware vCenter Appliance–FIXED
I think I experienced an edge case issue where one of my client’s vCenter Appliances wasn’t showing any available patches to install. This was a 6.7.12000 version of…
What you need to know so you Don’t Meltdown from Spectre! How to patch your computers.
So the world is ablaze again from the latest computer vulnerability. Make that 2 of them. And they affect pretty much every computer made in the last…
VMware Horizon View Maintenance releases/updates
By now, most of my clients are running at least version 6.x of Horizon. Occasionally, I’ll get emails asking if it is time to upgrade or what the…
Easy Hotfix list for Microsoft TS/RDS patching
Tracking down patches is a pain in the ASCII. You want to keep your servers up to date but digging through endless Google searches to find relevant KB…
King for a Day – What would you change?
So over the past few weeks, I've had some really good discussions around patch management. The reasons why some people don't patch, the reasoning behind why people do…
Patching and Antivirus : Technology Doppelgangers?
As I am sitting here thinking about Windows Patching, it strikes me that there are some real parallel threads among patching and Antivirus. They both seem to be…
Why do we Bother patching systems?
So there are a bunch of reasons people patch their systems. In fact, there are probably more reasons people patch systems than why they wouldn't. (although there are…
Patch Management? I don’t care for it but YOU should!
Patch Management! How exciting? Eagerly waiting up till the wee hours of the night on Patch Tuesdays, waiting for Microsoft to release the latest round of security patches…