Those with Server 2008, how often do you reboot?

[celliott]

As above, I'm used to managing a bunch of Linux servers in production. Generally I only reboot these boxes if there is something that grabs my attention in the security eratta for the kernel, or if there are hardware issues. Everything else I can update on the fly.

I'm looking at deploying some Server 2008 based kit, and just wondering if it's still the case where you need to reboot whenever there are updates, and therefore do a "patch day" once a week etc? I've not really used Windows Server since 2000/2003

Or have things changed and you dont really need to reboot that often for updates?

 

[J1nxy]

Typically the updates unless there is a critical patch come out on patch tuesday which is the 2nd Tuesday of the month. This will probabaly require a reboot but other than that unless there is a particular issue they don't get rebooted.

 

[Saundie]

I've found that Server 2008 requires restarts after patching less often than Server 2003, although the need still remains. I've had to restart my server once this month for patch installation, whereas before with 2k3 it would be required pretty much every patch day.

 

[superplay]

Genrally for patch cycle only.