Our last consultant had told us that we should not install any/most of the updates from microsoft onto out cognos server. This seems crazy to me. Anyone have any info on this at all?
The best option would be to have a replica on vmware from your server, to load the patches on, to see what happens.
If one blows up the cognos part, you will have a culprit.
So i asume the consultant meant autoupdate is bad, but manual test/install after the update is a few weeks old is safer/best practice.
Cognos receives the updates proably the same time as you do. That does not give them much time to test, find, repeat, fix and release a hotfix for an issue. Cognos supports every issue you will have with MS hotfixes, but with all that downtime, you will not be happy.
We impliment our Microsoft Patches on our Dev servers the week before we do it on prod. I gives us enough time to check for issues.
We have been running our current environment for 2 years and have yet (knock on wood) to find a MS Patch that has caused a problem with C8.
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