Successful patch management requires the formation of a robust process to ensure timely and accurate application and security fixes within an IT environment. Throughout 2004/05, patch-management ...

Many security breaches can be avoided by applying software patches to known vulnerabilities as soon as they’re released by the vendor. Patch management software provides a centralized place for IT ...

A few articles ago, I started a Sysadmin 101 series to pass down some fundamental knowledge about systems administration that the current generation of junior sysadmins, DevOps engineers or "full ...

There are few things I love more than getting something for “free” and having it turn out to be valuable. That’s certainly true with Microsoft’s latest attempt at easing patch management pain, WSUS ...

Quick Summary Looking to reduce security gaps and operational risk across your IT environment? Discover the 10 best patch management software solutions for CIOs in 2025 that help automate updates, ...

Even though Hyper-V's replica feature does not provide true high-availability the way that a failover cluster does, you can use your replica infrastructure to minimize the disruption caused by the ...

Brien Posey walks through the next steps involved in automating patch management for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. In the first part of this series, I showed you how to create a ...

The last time we looked at Microsoft’s System Management Server, it was in the middle of a long beta-test cycle. While the basic features of the product haven’t changed, there have been some minor ...

Last week I discussed the top 5 benefits of server consolidation/virtualization. This week, we look at the benefits of Windows Server Update Services. Update ...