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The objective of this blog is to inform customers about patching best practice, feature enhancements, and key issues. My goal is to improve our customers' patching experience in any way I can. Gerry Haskins, Director, Software Patch Services
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- New FREE online Patch Training Courses
- Which patch patches which Object ? Which package ? Security and other stuff
- Solaris 10 10/09 Patch Bundle now available
- Major PatchFinder enhancements available now!
- Latest Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs
- Patching Pre-flight Checks (ppc) tool now available
- Patches for "Turbo-Charging SVR4 Package Install" are now available
- IBM's X-Force Report Praises Sun for Fast Fixes
- Patch Forums now available for contract customers
- Automated 'wget' patch downloads: issue resolution
- Improvements to Solaris 10 Recommended and Sun Alert Patch Clusters released
- New SunSolve release, wget, and patch access entitlement update
- Changed blog background theme
- Training for Solaris 10 Patching
- Heads up on Kernel patch installation issues with jumpstart or ZFS Root
- Zones Parallel Patching versus Update On Attach: When to use which one ?
- Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) patch bundle now available!
- Zones Parallel Patching feature now available!
- New PatchFinder tool now available
- How to analyze patch failures and other useful info
- Patch News Update
- Ooops! Please ignore empty feature kernel patches accidentally released
- Patching Zones goes Zoom!
- Patch Presentation for Customers
- Improvements to Patch Cluster pages on SunSolve
- Need unzip fix available in patch utilities patch to unzip Solaris 10 Clusters
- Cannot patch Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 or 9
- Now possible to upgrade directly from Solaris 8 SPARC to latest Solaris 10 release
- Freeing up space in /var
- Stricter Solaris patch entitlement implementation roll-out commencing this week
- OpenSolaris code swarms
- Definitive interpretation of the "rebootimmediate" and "reconfigimmediate" patch flags
- Patching enhancements and other stuff
- Why it is now more important to keep your SPARC and x86 Firmware up to date
- Solaris 10 Live Upgrade Zones Starter Patch Bundle
- More info on patching using Live Upgrade
- Solaris 10 05/08 (Update 5) Patch Bundle
- Firmware patching
- Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Kernel PatchID Sequence
- Patch Management Best Practices
- Solaris 10 Kernel PatchID Sequence
- Sun Alert Notifications
- Potentially Problematic Solaris 10 patches
- Patch Automation Tools
- Patch Access Entitlement
- Patching Strategies
- Patch Install Downtime Requirements
- Using Solaris Live Upgrade for patching
- Deferred Activation Patching
- Patching Solaris 10
- Solaris Patches
- Understanding Patches
- Starting New Year Resolutions a Little Early
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