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I’ve heard from many of you that yo...
Thanks for the detailed post. I think you've omitted some details. I'm trying to match this simple story to the schedule of actually released updates and seeing some gaps. Let's take https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619, which at the moment shows:
There are three questions:
1. You have two updates dated November 13 (KB4467708 and KB446455). If they are cumulative, should be just one on the same date. Oh, wait, KB4464455 is actually the October cumulative update that you re-released on the same date with the first release of the November cumulative update. Am I getting this right?
2. You still have two cumulative updates for November, according to my WU history: KB4467708 and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4469342/.
https://i.imgur.com/udUYaK9.png
Why is that?
3 (which echoes back to 1). https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4469342/ is showing December 5. Yes, it's the last release date, but it's a November cumulative update released on November 13, then again on November 28, and then again on December 5. So you pushed it three times, but the KB article neglects to mention any release history.
How does this fit into your patch tuesday schedule? Why don't you list the complete history?
All in all, this does look very agile, but it's not simple, absolutely not transparent and totally unpredictable. Care to clarify?