Yeah, I am looking to have the servers reboot after installing patches regardless of if the update requires a reboot or not.
KEVIN JOHNSTON From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: Maintenance Windows and reboots Are you trying to just reboot once a month, or however often you patch? We reboot workstations by using a basic program that runs cmd /c and tells ConfigMgr to reboot afterwards. This kicks off the same reboot prompts and timer set in the client settings, and works really well. Same end user experience whether it's a patch or our forced reboot. Daniel Ratliff From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Johnston Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:44 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [mssms] Maintenance Windows and reboots I am still testing out using Maintenance Windows in our company for servers. When we did our trial run, I noticed that not all the servers rebooted. Upon further inspection it looks like the updates that were applied did not need to reboot the server. Just curious how others "force" a reboot (automatically), as it is always nice to reboot servers when you can, I was hoping that the MW would force a reboot regardless. But it seems once this happens I need to then go back in and see which ones did not reboot and manually do it. We don't have a lot so it is not too bad, but I am trying to automate it as much as possible. I don't have Orchestrator or anything that can do this. It would be nice I guess if you could force the reboot on the servers. Any tips, tricks or suggestions. KEVIN JOHNSTON The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information.
