Is there any best practices or whitepaper on how to best apply/install security patches?
Hi,
yes, there is some content on microsoft.com:
There is a whole site dedicated to Security Update Management: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/PatchManagement.mspx
In addition MSIT (our internal IT) shows how we do Update management at Microsoft from a server and a desktop perspective:
This is the server side: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735249.aspx and Dekstop: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735139.aspx
Hope this helps
Roger