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QUESTION POSED ON: 05 October 2005
Do you know of any patch management product for a Windows 2000/2003 based environment that will stop services such as Oracle or other database services before patching and restart them once the patch is installed? I have had to rebuild Oracle due to Windows security patches. I am patching manually at present, but I want to get away from this. I was thinking of trying WSUS, but I'm not sure what will happen.

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WSUS won't allow this type of configurability natively -- you'll have to stop and restart the service yourself. For this type of overall control, in a large environment you're going to need a more full featured systems management application. These applications typically allow full or near-full control over every aspect of a system's configuration and operation. If you are working in a smaller environment (small number of database servers), I'd probably try scripting a solution to handle the service management and install the patches with WSUS or a similar patch management tool.

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