This is a short summary of the session: Patching SharePoint 2010 held by Shane Young and Todd Klindt held at the SharePoint Conference 2009.

Listening to Shane and Todd is always entertaining, it’s like a mix of Chandler from Friends and Jim Carry (Is it only me that thinks they actually are quite alike from a distance?) giving you performance on stage. But they are very good on what they do and are very inspiring, so thanks guys!

So what did they talk about? Well, patching in SharePoint 2010 is such a relief for Admins. Finally we can install the bits on the machines, wait for our maint window and kick of the DB upgrade, and you want to do the psconfig? Well, you are now able to kick them of simultaneously on all your WFEs.

Another new feather is that you are now able to mount multiple content databases, it will of course put a heavy load on the SQL but find out what your system can handle and just run it to get up to speed.

In SharePoint 2010 you will now be able to monitor the upgrade and patching from Central Administration. It’s great! And you are able from a “dashboard” like page see the patch status of your servers, and if you are missing a patch on one of the servers that will be displayed and it will show where to find the patch with a link, just lovely.

Other things picked up from the session is that MS will continue to have CU (Cumulative updates) on an every other month basis. What Microsoft also has promised is to never push a SharePoint path out through Windows update, thank god!