Hi Mike, I had the same issue when patching this month's patch on my dell test dc using 3rd party patch software (st bernards' updateexpert) - it just doesn't reboot! (one whole day)
Upon going into dell drac - it reboots without actually pressing anything...wierd but true.. Do you happen to be on dell? Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono Group Support Engineer InternationalSOS Pte Ltd mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (+65) 6330-9740 - temp -----Original Message----- From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:56 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] rebooting a patched, but stubborn DC Hi Susan, Thanks for the response. No UPS issues. Checked the services remotely and didn't find anything unusual. The DC did finally reboot on its own shortly after I sent out my first message - about 2 hours after the original patching and message saying it wanted to reboot and I clicked OK. The event logs showed nothing of any consequence, just a big (2 hour) gap in the system event log entries (between the entry saying it initiated shutdown and the entry saying the system was coming back up). The security log showed no gaps at all. Am I the only one that sees this kind of behavior on W2K3/SP1 servers? I normally don't use the "/console" switch when I TS in (eg, mstsc.exe /console). I wonder if that could speed the process up. Mike Thommes ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Sat 10/15/2005 3:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] rebooting a patched, but stubborn DC APC UPS's and you don't have the latest ver on there? HP with a UPS? Can you get into services and see if something is 'stopping'? Got any ILO ability there [or suitable other remote techniques]? Thommes, Michael M. wrote: >So I have remotely (TS connection) applied the latest Windows patches >to one of my DCs. Patches went on fine. Said it needed to reboot. I >clicked "Restart". And two hours later, it still has not rebooted, but >it did terminate the TS session. I have tried to "kick it" via a >"shutdown /f /r" command from another DC. Still no luck. Issue same >command remotely with the big Kahuna account, and it says a shutdown is >in progress. It appears to still be serving up clients, e.g., no >discernable ill effects. I have seen this periodically in the past >with other servers. Anyone have any comments/thoughts are this >irritating, weekend <sigh> activity? TIA! > >Mike Thommes >List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >List archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
