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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello c/sysadmin, and welcome to the Patch Megathread! I'm editing this post and leaving it up as a single catch-all sticky post for patch days for the time being, since we're not seeing enough activity to warrant new threads IMO. If someone wants to help moderate / curate content and actively create new patch day posts, please let me know and I'll add you to the mod team.

 

This is the place to talk about the latest patches, updates, and releases. We put this thread into place to help gather all the information about this month's updates: What is fixed, what broke, what got released and should have been caught in QA, etc. We do this both to keep clutter out of the community, and provide a singular resource to read.

 

While this thread is timed to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, feel free to discuss any patches, updates, and releases, regardless of the company or product.

 

Remember the rules of safe patching:

  • Deploy to a test/dev environment before prod.
  • Deploy to a pilot/test group before the whole org.
  • Have a plan to roll back if something doesn't work.
  • Test, test, and test!
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hi there,

we are administrating an microsoft365 infrastructure for a customer without using microsoft products on our own... Well let's say we are managing it, as itś been set up by another company before and we just try to make sure nothing happens until we get em out of the cloud end of year...

Like always when a MS Patchday happens, I don´t have any clue if those updates are necessary for them or if microsoft will take care as the customer is in their god damned cloud...

Well ... so does anybody have an idea how it works with security patches for sharepoint / azure etc. ( everything beside client updates) if you are using Microsoft365? Do I need to do anything or just relax and let em do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For the Microsoft SaaS, PaaS and Is as services you don't have to worry about regular updates at all, it's for the most part completely invisible to the customer unless someone screws up.

There are some instances of planned maintenance where the customer can take action to assure smooth operations. In azure you can check/configure notifications under the "service health" menu. Upcoming planned maintenance or unplanned issues would show up here with instructions on what to do. Sometimes, but very rarely, there are maintenance tasks where your services might require a restart, you can then plan that restart yourself or get a rug pull on the deadline, usually 1-2 months after the notification.

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