I am new to the company where I work and responsible for the patch management process, before I started here there was none. Now I have implemented a patch management process, but we have a server ...

Next to random Windows problems and day-to-day systems management, I find patch management the nastiest task for an enterprise Windows systems admin. It’s often frustrating, time-consuming, and ...

Greedy patching: Hot patching is a way to quickly install security updates without requiring an OS reboot. Microsoft has offered the feature for years through its ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of its Hotpatch capability for virtual machines, which just works with the Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition ...

Microsoft has released multiple emergency, out-of-band updates for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server to fix two ...

Microsoft has patched 112 vulnerabilities in January 2026, including CVE-2026-20805, a Desktop Window Manager zero-day that ...

Microsoft issues emergency patch for a critical WSUS flaw enabling remote code execution CVE-2025-59287 allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges without user interaction An ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The secret to the continuing availability of security patches ...