If you have enough people to call them an IT team and they DON’T know this, then they aren’t an IT team, just a bunch of people who think they know computers good.
Source: Delayed updates have been policy everywhere I have ever worked since the 90s.
Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And my IT team pushed this release as a required update, immediately, as soon as it dropped. And now they’ve learned a lesson. Wait a week or two on major point releases.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve been in tech for decades, so I know what they’re supposed to do, but my several thousand person company’s IT has decided to roll Mac updates out immediately for some weird reason
That said, we’re in an industry where there is likely legal risk if office machines are not running OS’ with all the latest security patches. But by pushing patches immediately, they also expose the company to technical problems or security vulnerabilities that accidentally appear in the occasional new release.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think somebody said, but there’s the misconception that Apple can never do wrong by people who should know better.
On the other end of the spectrum, my IT department is rolling new laptops for everybody will l with Windows 10. The plan is to upgrade everybody “the day we can no longer have support for 10”.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Waiting until the last minute to do something necessary is a corporate tradition along with pushing emergency changes on a Friday afternoon and asking how much the LTS support costs
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You would think… but they new before that it was a bad idea. Someone above them said “I don’t care, just do it”. They also probably said something about metrics.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Fucking metrics
filister@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s why it is wiser to update when .01 .02 release launches.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From what I understand, 14.4 was also a HUGE security release for active exploits in the wild. It might have been better overall to deal with temporary broken usb functionality than risk a severe vulnerability remaining on their network.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Seperate security from major updates maybe?
What moron decided to bundle both of those updates together?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
14.4 wasn’t that major of an update, it was mostly the security updates.
cornshark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why did it break so many things then?
catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It also seems to have fixed a major memory leak bug for me, though I’ve only used it for a week or so now. Thank god.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My company paused the rollout once all these bugs started appearing. They pushed it live before knowing how the GM was being received at scale.