ChangeBASE have announced their findings of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update of November, 2008. There were two patch releases this week (MS08-068 and MS08-069) and one last week (MSO8-067). MS067 and MS068 were critical releases as they addressed potential serious security issues. However from an application compatibility perspective they will have minimal impact on an organisation's application portfolio. This comes as good news for enterprises as it gives them a month off the full testing cycle with patch updates. In recent months the impact of patches on applications has been significant and has required a huge amount of testing to ensure business critical applications continue to work. From our discussions with larger companies their testing activity generally falls into one of three camps:
ChangeBASE AOK Patch Impact Monitor identifies in minutes applications that are affected by new Microsoft releases and provides detailed information on potential compatibility issues. This can cut the testing time down to the point that heavy testing can be done on a greater number of applications in a short period of time. Thankfully November should be a quiet time for testing as the new patches will have minimal impact on an organisation's applications. Testing Summary MS08-68: Marginal impact with low numbers of applications affected MS08-69: Marginal impact with low numbers of applications affected
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M = Moderate I = Important C = Critical c. 800 applications were tested against these patches using the ChangeBASE ACL (Application Compatibility Lab) Security Update Detailed Summary
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This blog details some of my thoughts and aspirations relating to application packaging, compatibility and the ongoing management of applications on desktop, server and cloud platforms. I have a strong focus on the Windows desktop space, but as we progress into more and more cloud based application management, we will definitely see more posts on getting applications working in the cloud.
Friday 14 November 2008
November 2008, Microsoft Patch Tuesday
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