RE: Windows Update
- From: Dêniz Feital (Chiptek) <dfeital@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:52:31 -0300
I must say I have no problems AT ALL using Windows Update in our
Servers.
Regards
> Dêniz Feital
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul E. Robichaux [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 1:45 PM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Windows Update
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This article is from April of this year, which means it totally misses the
improvements in WU, the release of the Software Update Service, and the new
version (1.1) of MBSA-- which does in fact check Exchange and WMP. Russ gets
a lot of play out of being contrarian, and most of his arguments were true
at
the time. Things have changed, though, and they'll be changing again. MS is
spending heavily on fixing this and other security management problems, and
if you choose not to use the tools they make available, you're only hurting
your own security (or spending a lot of needless time doing stuff manually).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Sullivan [mailto:esullivan@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:18 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] RE: Windows Update
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> This article addresses more of the concerns. Windows Update
> is intended for use for consumer products, and not for
> production data center environments. To quote an industry expert:
>
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q2/0053.html
>
> "So in the end, I have to agree with Susan Bradley's basic
> premise, don't use Windows Update. I vehemently disagree with
> her that we should treat it as v1.0, its been around long
> enough and MS have had ample opportunities to fix it, it
> should be robust, accurate, and incredibly reliable given how
> important it is. I also wouldn't agree that it can be used on
> systems other than servers, its as unreliable on workstations
> as it is on anything else."
>
> Cheers,
> Russ - Surgeon General of TruSecure Corporation/NTBugtraq Editor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rupert Wood [mailto:me@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:05 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] RE: Windows Update
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> Edward Sullivan wrote:
>
> > There are big problems using Windows Update on production
> > servers. I would recommend that you instead download the
> > appropriate hotfixes and service packs individually, and apply them.
> >
> > Reference this thread for more info on why Windows Update on
> > servers is bad news.
> >
> > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q2/0054.html
>
> I only have time to skim that, but I read it as
>
> "Windows Update isn't good enough - MS should provide us
> with something better."
>
> and his only criticism was that you have to manually check
> that the patches it applies cover all the security bulletins.
> There were no follow-ups to it.
>
> Is that it, or have I missed something? He didn't convice me
> of any reason not to use WU or MS's other free tools - you
> just have to be aware of their limits.
>
> Rup.
>
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