Hello all, my company has a Symposium server release 4 running on an HP box that has Windows 2003 loaded. If you've followed both platforms, Windows 2003 is discontinued and Symposium 4.0 has been end-of-life, etc., for years. So they are both old, both unsupported, etc.
However out security team wants the server patched because it failed a compliance requirement. Microsoft has the patches and i can load them but this requires a reboot. Our vendor supporting the equipment is against this and won't help. I've talked to a couple people that also say "don't touch it, can of worms".
So i'm posing the question here. If you were in my shoes, would you patch and reboot a Symposium server release 4.0 running on Windows 2003 server? I don't think it'll have any issues but I want to hear it from someone that has experience w/Symposium, not just a sales rep an an Ops manager that is scared.
I rebooted an XP PC last week and XP is even older than Windows 2003.
However out security team wants the server patched because it failed a compliance requirement. Microsoft has the patches and i can load them but this requires a reboot. Our vendor supporting the equipment is against this and won't help. I've talked to a couple people that also say "don't touch it, can of worms".
So i'm posing the question here. If you were in my shoes, would you patch and reboot a Symposium server release 4.0 running on Windows 2003 server? I don't think it'll have any issues but I want to hear it from someone that has experience w/Symposium, not just a sales rep an an Ops manager that is scared.
I rebooted an XP PC last week and XP is even older than Windows 2003.