Alek wrote:
I am reluctant to just install all 20 of the new "important" updates,
yet do not have the patience to visit each KB page and make a decision.

Is there a single place that has a summary of what each affects?

If I'm running 8.1, should I be installing upgrades meant for Windows
Server or other non-8.1 systems?

Thanks.

This is 2016.

Of course you read the description for each one.

If you didn't want to read the description, you
would have left it on "Full Auto", to tip over
your OS :-) Right ?

There are server and desktop OSes based on the same OS core.
When you see a reference to "desktop OS blah and Windows
Server blah", the reason the patch is issued for both,
is because portions of the code base are the same. The
server copy has additional features enabled by license,
which makes it the server edition (LargePages,
VSS redirection, etc). In some cases, if a security
article only happens to mention the server edition,
they wouldn't offer it to you unless it "fit" into
your desktop OS.

And depending on when the update showed up, sometimes
the update shows up before the description page for
the security patch goes live. You might have to wait
up to 12 hours for the description page to appear,
if there is no description page evident.

Paul