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Question about disabling auto restart from windows update.

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mooseracing

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I have No auto restart for scheduled Updates enabled in GP. We are usign a WSUS server to get updates from. From the descrip MS won't restart if someone is logged in, does that go for locked also? or not?

I've seem to have a couple of engineers let me know their machines restarted overnight, pretty much everyone here just locks their pc so I'm not sure if that was the case.

I don't want to not auto install updates as then they will never get done, but we can't have auto reboots.

Does anyone know the facts and not just heresay? I've done alot of searching and reading today, and it's looking more and more like just downloading updates and notifying for install.
 
Is there a particular reason why there cannot be reboots?

My GP is to have the computers reboot so I'm not sure about the no reboot feature.

The user still stays logged in when a computer is locked.

I've found that if you leave the setting as notify if there are updates, the updates will never get installed as everybody ignores the update notification.
 
Why not change the time of the install and reboots? You could configure multiple GPOs for different groups of machines that have different time if necessary.

Not rebooting after installing an update leaves the machine in a potentially unstable state, so it isn't recommended you delay rebooting very long.
 
I know I don't want to leave it up to the user as I been there done that about the updates never getting installed. Working at an engineering company it seems like most jsut leave there stuff up and lock the machine and they've had restarts overnight. They don't like that very much. Especially the owners.

Right now they are set to install at 3am.

The other thing I was thinking is our servers need to be in a different group otherwise they will be restarting as they never have any one logged on.

I'd like to send a company wide email out stating save all your work at the end of the day otherwise you might lose it.
 
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