Sunday's maintenance went well, but applying the SQL Server updates still took longer than we had hoped. Though we were able to significantly reduce our servers' restart time in the last week or so, the hotfix required two shutdown and startup cycles that pushed us about an hour over our intended window.
The only other hiccup was a delivery mistake that meant we were unable to install our switches' redundant power supplies. We've already received the missing units and will complete this during next weekend's maintenance window.
On the positive side, all affected SQL servers now have the relevant hotfix installed and our switching fabric is much more fault tolerant than ever before.
Thanks again for your patience. We've got one more major maintenance coming up next weekend and then our power and switching refactor is complete.
