My colleague, Jeff Victor, has written an excellent and informative blog posting on how to improve patching performance, "patching zones goes zoom!". Enjoy!
Thursday Apr 02, 2009
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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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