Chapter 15: Analyzing the Impact of Installing Microsoft Operating System Patches
Analyzing the Impact of Installing a Microsoft Operating System Patch
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Information About Missing Patch Files
The OS Security Patch Wizard imports a Microsoft operating system patch using the patch’s INF file. An INF file is
a text file that is used by Microsoft to install the patch and which contains the information necessary to install a
patch, such as for a driver, including file names and locations, registry information, and version information.
An OS Security Patch can consolidate patches for different Windows Operating Systems. Any given INF file may
contain information about files that do not exist or are not relevant for a particular Windows Operating System. The
OS Security Patch Wizard ignores these files when importing the patch information into the Application Catalog
and reports the missing files in the log file. The OS Security Patch Wizard will not import any information about the
missing files into the Application Catalog.
About Dual-Mode OS Patches
The OS Security Patch Wizard imports a Microsoft operating system patch using the patch’s INF file, which is a text
file that contains all the information necessary to install a device (such as INI and registry changes, filenames, and
locations of the source files on source media).
The
Branch
listed in this column is the name of the patch’s INF file minus its extension. Because all obvious
identifiable information within the INF file (like
Name
) is often identical, this Branch information is included to help
differentiate the patches within a dual mode patch.
A sample branch name could be:
update_SP2GDR
or
update_SP2QFE
, where:
•
QFE
= Quality Fix Engineering updates (also known as hot fixes). These include security updates, feature
packs, update roll-ups, drivers, and critical updates. They are created when an issue is identified that needs a
fix in a specific and small subset of customer environments. These fixes have not been tested for the same
length of time for regressions or incompatibilities as what a GDR fix typically goes through.
•
GDR
= General Distribution Release updates. These updates can be found on the Windows Update site,
meaning that they are available to a wider audience. GDRs are tested to a greater degree than QFEs.
Note •
QFEs generally contain all the prior fixes from both GDR and QFE releases while GDR releases do not
contain QFE fixes.
Analyzing the Impact of Installing a Microsoft
Operating System Patch
After you have imported a Microsoft operating system patch into the AdminStudio Application Catalog, you can
continue to use the ConflictSolver Patch Impact Analysis Wizard to identify conflicts between Microsoft operating
system patches and the packages and OS Snapshots in the Application Catalog. This helps you determine how
specific MSI packages or OS Snapshots would be affected when a Microsoft operating system patch is installed.
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