Microsoft Updates

It is important that you keep your systems up to date with Microsoft updates and security patches. If your system is not kept up to date, it may not run as reliably as it should and it is not as resistant against viruses and other forms of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

You could manually log in into each computer within your organization and go to the http://update.microsoft.com website to download and install the updates. Unfortunately, if you have hundreds of computers, this approach is impractical because of the labor involved and because hundreds of computers downloading patches also use valuable bandwidth. In addition, you often want a way to control what updates get applied because updates may cause problems ...

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