Patching process idea / suggestions requested

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juice13610

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Patching process idea / suggestions requested Monday, July 30, 2012 5:27 PM (permalink)
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Is there anything flawed with this methodology?
 
  1.        Software update group / deployment package containing all Win2kX patches for the year 2008-2009
  2.        Software update group / deployment package containing all Win2kX patches for the year 2010-2011
  3.        Software update group / deployment package containing January 2012 through previous month’s patches
  4.        Software update group / deployment package created each month after patch Tuesday and deployed.
  5.        The following month, the previous months patches (#4) are placed into the update group mentioned in #3
  6.     Repeat steps 3-6 until all of year 2012 is completed.  Add all 2012 patches to 2010-2011 group, rename group to 2010-2012
  7.     Start over for 2013
 
Then have the software update groups mentioned in #1 and #2 deployed to all server groups at all times, so any servers newly added to SCCM patching group will for sure have these patches installed.
Any reason why this wouldn't work?  Is this a bad idea?  Is there any way I can keep the software update groups from expiring?
 
 
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    gjones

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    Re:Patching process idea / suggestions requested Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:35 AM (permalink)
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    There is nothing wrong with that patching process, just make sure that you keep your packages and SU list to less than 500 SU each.
     
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      Re:Patching process idea / suggestions requested Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:01 AM (permalink)
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      I currently do all patch groups by year. Adding the current years patches each month. However I do know there is a limit of 1000 patches per group. So if you support many languages or products it could possibly reach that limit. 
       
       
       
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        Re:Patching process idea / suggestions requested Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:57 AM (permalink)
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        opps. I thought that I was looking at the CM07 forum, the SU limit is 500 for CM07 and 1000 for CM12.
         
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