Installing newest patches

[Alice]

What's the general opinion about installing all the latest
patches at once (the ms04-11 thru ms0-14 group), only
rebooting after the last one....
It's counter-productive to reboot after each patch.

Thanks.

 

[Bill Peele [MS]]

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From: "Alice" <[email protected]>
Subject: Installing newest patches
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:07:56 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.windows_update

What's the general opinion about installing all the latest
patches at once (the ms04-11 thru ms0-14 group), only
rebooting after the last one....
It's counter-productive to reboot after each patch.

Thanks.
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Alice,

I used the Windows Update site to install all four of these updates this morning on two Windows 2000 Servers, a Windows
2003 Enterprise Server and a Windows XP Pro system. On all four I installed all four updates at once before rebooting and
I have not had an issue with any of these four systems.

Bill Peele
Microsoft Enterprise Support

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[Scott]

I always (have the luxury) of installing updates on a test machine.
Although I didn't have nay issues this morning on the test machine, I am
not going to play russian roulette and certainly suggest postponing the
install of 835732 on ANY production machine until the high volume of
errors noted in this forum are addressed.

Scott