What Are the Recommended Best Practices for Patching in Automox?
Automox offers a variety of templates to create policies that conform to our best practice recommendations. These templates are available from our Next steps guide (available on the dashboard in the console), or you can use these links to quickly create these policies within your environment.
Cross-OS
Cross-OS - Patch Browsers - Ensure web browsers are secure and updated
Cross-OS - Third-Party Updates - Apply updates to all supported third-party software
Windows
Windows - Servicing Stack Updates - Ensure core patching can execute by keeping your servicing stack up-to-date
Windows - Security Definitions Updates - Apply security definition updates for Windows
Windows - First-Party Updates - Apply first-party Windows updates 7 days after their release date
Windows - Microsoft Office KB updates - Ensure Microsoft Office packages are secure and updated
Windows - Feature Upgrades - Apply feature updates for Windows Workstations
macOS
macOS - Security Definitions Updates - Apply security definition updates for macOS
macOS - First-Party Updates - Apply first-party macOS updates 7 days after their release date
Linux
Linux - First Party Updates Not Requiring a Restart - Apply updates to Linux packages that do not require a restart
Linux - First Party Updates Requiring a Restart - Apply updates to Linux packages that require a restart
Linux - Apply All Updates - Apply updates to all Linux packages
Related Topics
- See Third-Party Patching Best Practices for details about third-party overrides options.
- Automox Console Dashboard