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The process of applying, or files used to apply, improvements to a system or program. An update is typically encompasses minor changes and improvements, relative to an upgrade.

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Aggregate program that lists the updates to all of the programs on your system that needs updating?

Does this exist for windows? Imagine having a program that lists all of the updates you need to do to a windows system, that would be powerful.
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WSUS not downloading updates (timeout)

Windows Server 2012 Standard 64-bit. When I start the WSUS service this error shows up in Event Viewer: The WSUS content directory is not accessible. System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. at…
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Faster Windows Install + Automatisation

I'm looking for a way to install Windows Faster and let it run automaticly. We do daily installations of Windows XP, Windows Vista and soon Windows 7. We are currently using the following procedure: Install from CD/DVD. Install all the…
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Asset (js, css, images) loading is extremly slow on apache after update

I am running an Ubuntu 14.04 based linux web server and did an update by "apt-get upgrade". Everything worked fine before this update. After this update the time to load assets like JS- or CSS-files is randomly extreme high examples: I didn't…
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Centos failing to upgrade bash

I'm trying to resolve the recent Shellshock exploit however every time I run "yum update" or "yum update bash", it plainly says everything is up to date. I'm pretty frustrated at the issue and probably missed a small thing which I have yet to find…
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Can I upgrade an program via group policy if it was initially installed manualy?

We have a program which was installed manually on workstations when they were initially setup. We now need to upgrade this software and I wish to do it via group policy. I have created an MST using Orca. It appears to work using msiexec /i…
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CentOS 6 Yum update issue

I get this error when I try and run 'yum-complete-transaction' in shell: [root@namesvr ~]# yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: fastestmirror mirror speeds from cached hostfile Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile There are 1 outstanding…
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How to install updates on multiple windows servers automatically?

Let's say that I've got a lot of different Windows servers to install updates on. I.e. about 50 servers; running Windows server 2003, 2008, 2012 (service packs, R2 editions, and such), some 32bit and then some 64bit versions. Every once in a while,…
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Is it possible to update third party software using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

I am investigating Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and the list of software to update looks pretty fixed. Is it possible to add in third party software to the list? If not, what are the possible options? Microsoft SMS (think its called…
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YUM, "patchlevel" and the DTAP street on redhat/centos

Is there a way to make yum update to a certain patchlevel? I always promise my devs the servers between Dev, Test, Acc and Prod are the same with versions of software. But when u use yum via the redhat network it will just update to the latest…
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Keeping packages on a large number of openSUSE servers updated

Question for anyone out there managing a network of openSUSE machines. How do you keep track of and apply updates? I know about YaST Online Update (YOU) but it seems more geared towards keeping a single machine up to date. It doesn't seem to scale…
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How to update Subversion the nicest way?

I would like to update my Subversion server to a new version and don't find any documentation on this, so I'm asking this. How can I update Subversion (1.4.6 to 1.6.3) on Linux the easiest way? What can be harmed there? Keyword: APR etc. The distro…
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WSUS 3.0 updates not populating

I set up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with the intention of downloading and exporting WSUS data and metadata. I did an initial pull of updates for core operating systems like Win7, WinXP, etc. This initial pull brought in about 3800 updates…
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Changelogs for rudimentary Redhat packages such as chkconfig

Frequently when running yum update I will see packages such as chkconfig requiring an update and I'd like to find out exactly what has changed, I mean such packages have been around for such a long time that I couldn't imagine what changes could be…
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Monitor if new software updates/versions are available

I am managing 200+ Windows 7 machines with 150+ applications installed and would like to find an easy way to monitor if there is new software version/update available. I use SCCM+WSUS+SCUP for Windows and Adobe updates, but I don't have any way to…
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