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If you use Windows Server and not just repurpose a client SKU, you get full control over which updates, schedule, distribution, restart times, etc. IIRC it even
by smileybarry 4y ago
If you use Windows Server and not just repurpose a client SKU, you get full control over which updates, schedule, distribution, restart times, etc. IIRC it even ships in "update manually" mode, you have to manually enable automatic updates. And if you set-up something like WSUS I think you can even set gradual update rollout with health checks.
- iasay 4y agoSort of. Sometimes it goes wrong. I've seen a primary SQL Server go down because WUA took up enough CPU and interrupts to stop the cluster service health pings leading to a BSOD. This happened outside any schedule.
- smileybarry 4y agoGuessing this was in the XP-2003 era if you mentioned WUA? Windows Update had a couple rewrites in Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 to solve the old "checking for updates takes too much CPU % if you have X+ updates installed". It's dramatically better now.
- iasay 4y agoThis was last year on windows server 2019. I say WUA. I don’t know what the current version of it is called. There are still problems.
- smileybarry 4y agoAh, I see. I just remember WUA from that one EXE people ran on Windows XP to manually check for updates.