We don’t really have a dedicated SharePoint Administrator so we’re trying to figure out how often we should be applying SharePoint patches or cumulative updates to our farm.
In your opinion, is it better to:
- Apply them right away whenever they come out
- Wait until a couple come out and then apply them on a -2 schedule
- Wait until a service pack comes out and apply them all at once
- Only apply a patch if it fixes a specific issue that you are experiencing or a potential security threat
- If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – don’t do anything until you upgrade to SharePoint vNext
My instinct tells me that Security & Critical patches should get applied to the server ASAP (via WSUS policy, so hands-free)… but that instinct has been changing recently.
I’ve heard from some pretty smart SP folks that you should lag behind a version on CU’s… just in case, you know, something breaks from the update (like that ever happens rite?)