Re: Automatic Update Turned Off For Unattended Systems

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Since this is an operational 'bridge-type front-end' system, you MUST have
some sort of maintenance schedule, to provide doing system backups and
cleanups. Don't you? At that time, I would manually check Microsoft Update
for critical updates/patches.

If not, may the Lords of Cobol help you!

What happens when you do take this down for maintenance, do you have a
rollover system so that operations continue?

"Bob Day" <BobDay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:71AD50DE-C7CE-43B7-89FA-254B8A718EA7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We are a reseller of a telephony application on Dells - nobody actually
sits
infront of the computer, it is just connected to their PBX to give
additional
features.

We have decided to turn automatic updates off on these unattended systems
because the help says that some automatic updates require a reboot or to
accept an EULA. Since there is no one sitting at the screen to see this,
the
dialog box would sit there forever.

Two questions -
- Is it wise any to turn automatic updates on on an unattended system? I
suppose it would be possible for some update to be applied that our
software
has not been tested with that might cause a system failure.
- If it is wise, is there anyway around the above for unattended systems?

Thanks!
Bob Day
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