>My IT group has a "policy" where they age all Microsoft patches for 30 days before rolling them out to nearly 100 machines.
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>I feel this practice is dangerous and puts everyone at risk. I think that at least for the High Priority Security patches they should be installed immediately.
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>The IT group claims that they install these on a machine in their lab and allegedly "test" it.
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>What you think?

On my network and all client networks and PCs that I am responsible for, high priority security patches are installed immediately. Never had an issue (been doing it for over a decade).