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Mitchell Ashley
Productivity Hazards of Windows Updates
Written on Mon, 11/30/09 - 10:22am
Patch Tuesday. Windows updates. Microsoft Office updates. It's a necessary evil, making sure your Windows computers are up to date with the latest vulnerability patches. Patch "whatever day" for Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and others are now simply part of our normal IT process. Next to anti-malware and...
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The Hidden Cost of Out-of-Cycle Security Patches
Written on Thu, 07/30/09 - 3:15am
This week we all had to deal with the emergency Microsoft security patches due to a critical exposure in the Active Template Library (templates used for COM+ development) that could result in local code execution by a hacker.
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Last Week's Patches Tank Internet Explorer
Written on Tue, 06/16/09 - 11:26am
The dilemma: quickly update your Windows boxes and cross your fingers there’ll be no problems, or stay unpatched and get p00wned by some bot? The chances the most recent massive Windows updates would go flawlessly for everyone who patched their systems was probably small because of so many fixes. One...
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Patch Tuesday In A Virtual Environment
Written on Fri, 12/21/07 - 3:23am
There's been much banter on the blogs recently about how frequently VMware is or isn't releasing patches, who's virtualization product does and doesn't require you to reboot servers or take down the hypervisor, and whether running a hypervisor on top of an OS is more disruptive than...
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About Converging on Microsoft
Mitchell Ashley has a diverse background in software development, network engineering, information security, mobility, collaborative technologies, and IT management and operations. An early adopter of social media in business, he began blogging about security and information technologies in 2006 at theconvergingnetwork.com. Mitchell is VP of Information Technology at CableLabs in Louisville, CO, and previously held positions as CIO, CTO and VP Engineering at prior companies.
 

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