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  • When reading comprehension is limited to the title.
    MS mislabeled the update
    Heimdal (apparently a patchmanagement) auto-installed the falsely labeled update.

    If OP (this was reported by a Redditor on r/sysadmin) and their company is unable to properly set grace periods for windows updates I can’t help them either.
    IMHO you are supposed to manually review and release updates either on a WSUS or the management interface of your patching solution.
    Not just “Hehe, auto install and see what happens”.
    And if you do that shit, set a timeout for 14 days at least for uncritical rated updates.

















    • 2 servers for reundancy, preferably 3rd one laying around for a quick swap

    Overkill for a small startup. We sell to medical practices and they get (at most) a small tower server from HPE (ML30). Backup servers can either be a small 2 bay NAS or a microserver depending on the needs

    Pretty decent UPS setup, again multiple units for reundancy

    If they can afford that. Most are already good by just using a decent online UPS.

    Routers, network hardware, internet uplinks and everything at least duplicated and configured correctly to keep things running

    Not a multi million company.
    Routers: BS.
    Network: Maybe 2x 16 port switches but too much overhead. 1x 48 Port if you really need that.
    Internet uplinks: If you have a satellite office and need the S2S-VPN to be constantly up.
    Btw: You didnt mention a duplicated phone line ;P

    • A separate backup solution, on at least two different physical locations, so a few more servers and their network, power and other stuff taken care of

    Again overkill.
    Backup on the server with something to a 2-Bay NAS and a secondary job with rotating external USB disks to take or somewhere external with you.

    Monitoring, alerting system in case of failures, someone being on-call for 24/7

    Monitoring: Yep
    Alerting: Done by monitoring in the best circumstance
    On-call 24/7: As this is a small company: LOL