I suddenly have the need to learn some patch management skills. What is the quickest way to get up to speed?
We just converted our first 50 PCs from Win7 to WinX. Last Wednesday was our first patch recovery day with 6 in 50 PCs failing to open Word. That is a defect rate of 3/25. I was hoping for something like 1/1000. I’m even considering re-imaging them back to Win7.
I refused to pay the Microsoft ransom to unlock my PCs. After 5 long phone calls they opened a case for free and they provided the key (information) I needed to unlock my disabled systems. Six social workers could not see clients during the outage.
I see this business model to be quite similar to crypto-lockers.
Inject
Disable
Collect Ransom
Enable
Would anyone here accept a defect rate of 3/25 for any of the following:
An HIV test
The PC that controls the flood gates of your local reservoir
Your hard drive, NAS/SAN
Your pace maker
Your pharmacy
The laptop in your local sheriff’s patrol car
So why is Microsoft exempted from QA 101 with a 6 sigma process and meaningful cpk?
Why is the national security of the USA being put at risk? From my point of view forced updates is an automated malware delivery system. I for one never plan to pay a ransom to anyone to get my pc back, including MS. Imaging is too easy.
Thanks for your time. I look forward to learning. But, my boss hates WSUS and his policy forbids all forms of cloud on our county domain.
Kurt Angel
Swain County, NC – IT
