Test your Patches! A Staged Patching Solution with Azure Update Manager

A common challenge faced by most enterprise organizations who, hopefully, automate their operating systems patching cycles is to ensure that only the Windows and Linux packages updates that were tested in dev/test pre-production environments reach production machines. This article is for those readers who have been implementing automated, scheduled patching…

12/02/2024Core Infrastructure and Security Blog

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