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Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself
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There's a lot of people out there running automation to keep their servers secure. Well I agree any automation out there should be able to flag and upgrade excluded, It would seem to me like Microsoft should own some of the blame for a full ass hard to uninstall OS update fed in with the same stream and without it interaction. I kind of expect my OS in stall pop up a window and say hey a****** this is going to upgrade your system, are you cool with that. I don't know how it works these days but I know back in the day going between versions you would have to refresh your licensing on a large upgrade.
Unlike with other OSes Microsoft releases all of their patches on Tuesday at around the same time in one big batch. I spend my Tuesday morning reading the patch descriptions and selectively applying them. A method that hasn’t failed me once.
Yeah, I'm using Ninja on about 120 boxes. It's set to auth critical only. If someone reports a problem, we'll go ahead and blacklist that update temporarily while we sorted out even though it's semi-automated they never happen all at once there's always a couple of canaries that get up a little early.