Plant engineers and automation controls professionals debate best practices and patch stability for Rockwell Automation's Cumulative Patch Rollups and Studio 5000 versions across industrial plant...

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        "author": "UnSaneScientist",
        "excerpt": "Giant food site. Our food safety plan involves patching proactively. I use FTUpdater to roll out the patch to all 38VMs on 2 FT Directories. Otherwise when a CVE gets posted I’d be breaking production in an unscheduled manner.\n\n All PLCs that support it are on V38.11. Otherwise the highest possible for that hardware v20.??\n\n We have the pull to calmly twist Rockwell’s arm to fix things now, which",
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        "excerpt": "I install the patches every month. I also update AOPs periodically when I come across them. I don't install every AOP, just the ones that make sense to keep up on for devices I'm likely to encounter for my customers. I also suck up EDS files like a Hoover when I see them on a customer machine just in case that's the version missing from my library.",
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        "excerpt": "We did them during any outage when the PLC keep alive power was not locked out. That being said plenty of hardware is EOL and the “patch” is replacement. Seems to be the way with most HMIs",
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        "excerpt": "Every month I download the patches and test on my machine first, after a week of no issues I deploy using our IT’s endpoint management system to all devices with Rockwell software and give them 24 hours to press a button to install and reboot otherwise it forces it. I have >120 laptops for engineers, control techs, and electrical mechanical techs. Plus about >150 industrial PC’s running either ME",
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      "[post] What is the best practice for dealing with the Rockwell Cumulative Patch Rollup?",
      "[post] I had an issue with something not working, installed the latest CPR and it fixed the issue I was having. Now I'm wondering if I should be installing every one that comes out?",
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