Microsoft wants to dump on the company’s testing of patches? – Computerworld

During one of the sessions during a recent conference organized Ignite Thierry Paquay, one of the department heads Windows Update, explained to the participants of the meeting (mainly IT administrators from large companies), they should consider changing your model you install the update for Windows. The idea is that once installed in their systems all the updates that are available in Microsoft – and not only a security problem.

Paquay enumerated the reasons why it is worth doing – in his opinion early implementation in companies of all updates will be useful both for the users and for Microsoft. With this solution, thousands of companies from around the world will participate in the final test of the update, which will make Microsoft finds out if it does not cause any complications in the system.

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It is worth noting that until Microsoft pulled a similar operation already part (approx. 4%) of home users – some of them (selected by the company experts) can “manually” install some patches and updates before releasing them to the general customers. This normally applies patches “optional” – that is, such that when the default system settings are automatically installed via Windows Update after approx. A month of their availability (this month of delay will give Microsoft time to react in case of detection of any problems).

The problem is that this will concern only obtains information from home users – in many companies unrelated to security Optional updates are not installed at all, unless they relate to a module or software that is relevant to your organization. Moreover, this is in line with previous recommendations of Microsoft.

Now you have to change that – Thierry Paquay encouraged administrators to implement a all available patches and have reported any related problems. The reason is obvious: thanks to Microsoft receives much more information about the quality of its renovation and how to operate in a business environment. This in turn will help identify and resolve any problems with the amendments.

“We need your support here. We do not know what the situation is with our amendments in the professional world of IT – and we really need this knowledge. We need to know whether the code is sufficiently good quality to be able to change the designation of the renovation of the ‘optional’ to ‘recommended’ ‘- explained the representative of Microsoft. Paquay added that the implementation of such a practice will bring tangible benefits for businesses – firstly because the early patching can prevent the occurrence of some of the problems with the software, and secondly – because it selectively install updates inconsistent results in the creation of an IT environment that is difficult to manage .

All this seems to of course, primarily the preparation of professional users upgrade to a new model of software programs that Microsoft wants to go after the launch of Windows 10 – a stable, permanent updating of the system, without periodic culmination of a kind of cumulative updates or further “large” version. For such a model can function properly, it is essential that all systems are always updated to the same version – and it comprehensively, not selectively. Hence such, and not a different approach concern.

The participants of the meeting with a representative of Microsoft generally agreed with this approach – some of them admitted that she really has long been active in this model. However, the summary post on Microsoft’s blog also appeared in several critical comments – commentators wrote that I would be happy to do something for the concern … as long as he chooses to also do something for them. “If Microsoft wants our help, you should help us too. We need, for example, less demanding amendments restart – if Windows will be able to install updates without rebooting, you can opt out of “Tuesdays with amendments” [an allusion to the Microsoft timetable adopted by sharing amendments; They usually appear in every second Tuesday of the month - ed.]. The idea of ​​installing everything willy-nilly can check by home users – but it certainly does not help in the operation of my business “- wrote one critic.