Reply to post: Re: Proper procedure?

Cowardly Microsoft buries critical Hyper-V, WordPad, Office, Outlook, etc security patches in normal fixes

Peter2 Silver badge

Re: Proper procedure?

What most people do is have two groups for releasing patches, the Canary group (named after the canary that miners took down mine shafts as the canary snuffing it was a good indicator of toxic gasses) and the production group for everybody else.

The Canary group should consist of loud users who will report issues promptly, but in the worst case who's loss won't cause serious damage to the business.

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