What's the problem? We've got our Solaris patches, our Oracle patches, our Java patches.
It only takes about 12 hours to apply them to each server, and there are just a few thousand servers to do.
We'll just need a couple of weekend outages.
However, the UK datacenter managers were really annoyed when they were told they were not impacted, but had to apply the patches anyway, 'just in case'.
12 hours?
I hope you mean 1/2 hour!
I've never heard of a patch that took 12 hours to apply ...
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Apparently MS came out with their patch in January but it failed.
We are currently working out a manual solution to upgrade firmware in time clocks (the kind employees punch in and out of). It is risky to do over the network, because any interruption in the network during the installation could cause the clock be rendered as a $1500 door stop.