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For all of you who have to update your servers with the Daylight Saving Time changes, don't despair. You don't have to do it all the hard way. ZENworks Patch Management will let you sail through March 11 without missing a beat.

Freshly Updated with new ideas! It's coming faster than you think. The new congressionally mandated changes to the start and stop dates of Daylight Saving Time are throwing the IT world a serious curve ball. Come tell us how you're preparing for it, and earn Novell Rewards points you can spend for some very cool stuff.

To patch, or not to patch? That is the question. Actually, this is only one facet of the question. How do we implement the patches? Who decides when and whether to apply patches? How do we keep track of which machines have which patches? The automation of operating system and application patching is designed to take a lot of the repetitive drudgery out of our jobs, as well as to simply make sure that the job gets done. Sometimes, just getting the environment set up for the automation of software patching can be a bit onerous, especially if it means even a one-time visit to touch every workstation. My goal for this article is to hopefully reduce that drudgery, and free up some of your time for the projects and tasks that you really want to get done.

Check out Novell's Patch Tuesday Preparation Guide, and learn how to set yourself up for success.

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