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Will critical security updates get applied even with "auto minor version upgrade" disabled?

RDS offers an "auto minor version upgrade" setting, described in the docs, which causes AWS to automatically upgrade your database engine from time to time: If you want Amazon RDS to ...
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Server 2012 Windows Update not working

We have a windows server 2012 box that is hosted remotely. I've been trying to install a security patch and the windows update component appears to be corrupted. The error code i'm getting is ...
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Configuring Win10 updates to run at a specific time

I'm currently in the process of migrating some of our systems from Win7 to Win10. One of the requirements of this migration is that any systems running Win10 will need to conform to a specific update ...
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Update Windows 10 Update Status Times In Security Settings

We use an RMM Software that controls and manages Microsoft Patches. It is not able to automatically update the 'Last Checked Time' in the Update and Security Module. In previous windows we would ...
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With Ubuntu livepatch and unattended-upgrades is it possible to run a server fully patched without restarting the server or services or logging in?

A few weeks ago Canonical started offering livepatching for kernel updates without needing to reboot the server ( http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/10/20/live-kernel-patching-from-canonical-now-...
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Server auto update with tripwire IDS

I have a ubuntu server with weekly auto update/upgrade and tripwire installed. The problem is that the auto update kind of makes tripwire useless as changes always occur on my server. Therefore I ...
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Is cockpit using a different time zone for automatic updates?

I have configured the cockpit web console on my fedora server to automatically install updates at 04:00 every day. I am in the CEST time zone, so 02:00 UTC. It also makes the server reboot after ...
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Group of Ubuntu Servers being updated every tuesday at 7am. What triggers the update? It's not unattended-upgrades, It's not a cron job

I am responsible for 5 Ubuntu Servers that all get ALL of their software updated each Tuesday at 7am. I am struggling to find out how this happens. Security updates are applied each day through the ...
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PHP version automatically changed in IIS SERVER after 5-10minutes

I have a windows 2008 server with IIS7. The websites are configured with individial application pool. Few sites are running with PHP 5.4 and few are using PHP 5.6 version. All sites are under Multi-...
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How can I find out when a server will automatically restart "today"?

When I logged on to a Windows Server 2012 today I saw the message (in red on the logon screen) "Your Computer will restart today to finish installing important updates". I like to know exactly what ...
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Does automatic updates reboots Windows Server 2008 - When?

Follow up on previous post. When does the reboot take place? Can it be controlled? I think on 2012 there was a task that could be tweaked to control the time. On 2012 I had the problem that the ...
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get offline update from wsus server

I have a wsus server(windows server 2019), some of the clients are correctly in the console and getting updates.(No need for internet or VPN) But some clients face the following error for updating: &...
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Local Group Policy Editor Configure Automatic Update not saving changes

I'm trying to configure Automatic Updates using WSUS. Server configuration is done and when I try configure clients, some clients do not save the changes I made in Local Group Policy Editor. Some of ...
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SCCM - Feature Update 20H1 not visible in Software Center

Good morning fellow SCCM admins and enthusiasts! I have deployed the Windows 10 20H1 Feature Update via SCCM to a collections of computers running Windows 10 1903 and Windows 10 1909. It is a required ...
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Why isn't my Windows 2008 R2 server hosted in Azure getting ESU patches automatically?

I moved a Server 2008 R2 workload to Azure and should be eligible to receive extended support updates automatically as per this page without any need for configuration:- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
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WSUS WUServer Registry Key

I am having a hard time figuring this out. I started up a WSUS in our environment and everything was working fine up until a month ago. We are about 200 computers company wide and I had 10-15 at most ...
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Do pending system updates hamper server performance?

We recently had a production SQL Server max out its CPU to the extent that all we could do was reboot it. When it came back up, system updates were consuming 48% of CPU. Updates had been pending for ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 server - can unattended-upgrades cause MySQL to crash?

Quick overview of the company product I'm working on before I ask my question: We have a server running a pretty much stock install of Ubuntu 18.04 and a vision app. The main purpose of the server ...
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Which update scheme is better for an unattended Ubuntu server

I'm in a situation where I have to deploy an ubuntu server for a Client (they do not have a Sysadmin), and it will serve as an HTTP API backend for an app. The catch is that after the deployment they ...
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Cannot unblock IE9 installation after GPO blocker kit

I need to unblock the installation of Internet Explorer 9, after using the Internet Explorer 9 Blocker Toolkit in a GPO. In a way the unblocking does work, after disabling it in the GPO, but the ...
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Can saltstack update itself then run highstate

salt stack is being used with bit bucket. there are 2-3 of us who push updates to it occasionaly. I was wondering is there a way where salt stack can get the latests changes from bit bucket then ...
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How to disable auto-update for virtual machines in Azure?

In my azure environment there are sets of virtual machines that are rebooting at the same time, I assume it has to do with auto-update settings. How do I turn off the auto-updates and enable manual ...
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Windows 2003 stop one update installing

I have a windows 2003 server with multiple updates downloaded and ready to install. I want to stop one of the updates installing but there doesn’t appear to be any option, just the install button.
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