With the release of the latest security updates, it made me think about how painful it is to have to reboot a server because of applying a security update. You have to balance the need to stay secure, with keeping your server up and running. This is extremely important when it comes to a web server, especially a public facing server.
So how should we go about updating the server? Well there are a number of ways that you can do this, but I wanted to touch on one method which is using Virtualization, namely Hyper-V.
So let me give a bit of background, prior to the security patches being released, there is a key step that you should do if you are running your web server as a virtual machine. That step is making sure to have a second copy of the virtual machine.
For the purposes of this post, let?s assume that you are currently running one virtual machine p ...
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