by Dmitry Kirsanov
15. August 2013 16:00
On second Tuesday of each month Microsoft releases batch of patches for Windows and everything. Some of these patches require restarts of machine. Sometimes during the process machine can shut down instead of restarting. Sometimes the machine can’t even shut down properly. Yet in many cases production servers have "Install updates automatically" setting turned on. This is a sort of Russian roulette.
Morale: do not enable automatic installation of updates on production servers or machines you can’t switch on immediately.