I found this rather interesting and thought it was time to toss up some reasoning behind how/why FastServers.Net does patch management in a ‘delayed’ type fashion. As most of you know, the second Tuesday of each month is called “Black Tuesday” by the Microsoft IT professionals. The reason for this is the multitude of security update/hotfixes/patches that are deployed for all of the supported Microsoft operating systems, web browsers, office applications, and yada yada yada. Sometimes the patches get so convoluted that Microsoft has to re-release the patch/hotfix the next month to address flaws that they forgot to fix in the first place.
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As my compadre TL mentioned last week on this blog, a change in DST(Daylight Savings Time) for the nation has resulted in the need for an update of timezone data for all servers within our network. While for most machines, this can be resolved with a simple vendor-supplied patch, users supporting their own OSes that are no longer covered by vendor support (IE, Windows 2000) appear to be left out in the cold regarding this change. Fortunately, by using commonly available tools, Windows 2000 users are able to modify the timezone data on their local machine to reflect this new change. Read on for more information!
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Ah yes…another fine day here at FastServers. Yes the Midwest Operations Center is continually being hit with snow, ice, and wind gusts over 30MPH, however it’s business as usual!
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As most of our customers are already aware, FastServers ceased offering Windows 2000 dedicated servers earlier this year due to the support lifecycle that Microsoft has in place for the operating system. Although Microsoft has extended support in place, no further service packs will be released for the operating system and our support agreement does not cover incident support; all paid support going forward at this time.
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As the Emperor has foreseen.
And we’re talking about our favourite corrupt Senator or Pope Benedict, whatever suits your fancy at this point… why? They look the same. So you want proof. O_RLY. Well, fortunately my archive of vastly incredible trinkets includes this particular exhibit, BEHOLD:
http://www.feanor.net/z0r/palpaPOPE.jpg
Winner winner chicken parm dinner. But who, praytell, is wise? Drew. He works here. Why is he worthwhile, you’ll ask? Because previously he mentioned “keeping your operating systems updated to the latest ‘n’ greatest releases”… I’ll explore this, whilst clarifying from my omnipresent throne, as this dispatch continues…
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