[Mustang Dave]

...Performing the routine Microsoft patching we do the 3rd Wednesday night of each month at our company. The .Net patches released this month seem kind of fat they are taking a while to install. Yawn, job security.

 

[Matt9876]

I understand the need for .Net but it has always appeared to me as being a bloated chunk of code that kills machine performance.

Only my Win 7 64bit can run .Net without a huge hit in performance.

also have noted strange things in .net related to security that I hope they have patched in this latest release.

 

[dpeters11]

I'm assuming all those servers really need .Net. Its one thing I like about server 2008. Not there by default.

 

[klang]

I'm assuming all those servers really need .Net. Its one thing I like about server 2008. Not there by default.

A lot of products will install it for you.

Grrr, When I was supporting Windows servers I spent way to many hours repairing broken .Net installations. Partial salvation was finding the .Net removal tool.

 

[dpeters11]

True. I have some terminal servers that need patched during our maintenance window.

 

[heathramos]

not using WSUS and AD to patch your servers automatically?

 

[dpeters11]

I won't let them use that with my Terminal Servers, ever since they let a version of IE out that wasn't compatible with some addins we were still using. I patch them manually.