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This is why we use QA servers for most of our systems. We try our best to test all functionality on a patched QA server before deploying patches to our production servers. We have had good success doing this (with Windows at least.)

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The real question is why anyone would willingly run a windows server for anything?

So leaving your main system exposed to the new zero day vunerability for a whole day while you do the tests!

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