• MS-DEFCON 5: Get patched up

    Posted on February 5, 2014 at 20:06 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Microsoft cleaned up its act with the January 2014 Black Tuesday patches. Perhaps there’s some sort of karmic spring involved, but after a year of absolutely dreadful patches, the four doled out in January were relatively benign.

    I’ve heard no new screams about the December PowerShell patch KB 2506143, that caused problems. I’ve also seen no flare-ups about KB 2887069, another patch that gummed up the works in December. Microsoft may have fixed them.

    The late November .NET roll-up, KB 2858725, isn’t generating any more screams than .NET rollups usually encounter. The KB article is up to version 5. I say go ahead and give it a whirl.

    So this is one of the (rare!) occasions when I’m opening the flood gates and unabashedly advising that you apply all the outstanding Microsoft patches.

    I’m moving us to MS-DEFCON 5: All’s clear. Patch while it’s safe. (If I had an MS-DEFCON level 4.5, I’d be tempted to hedge bets a bit, but it’s rare that we hit a lull like this.)

    As usual, if you encounter a patch that isn’t checked for automatic delivery, DON’T CHECK THE BOX. Just let Windows Update install the updates that it’s determined to install. Don’t help it mess you up.

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