We faced this same battle a long time ago. We force a restart during our monthly patch window. Users get patches on Thursday, they have until Tuesday to install and restart.
If your company is serious about security, they need to allow this at least once a month. You can set your patching window for a week to match what you're saying here. You can set the reminders to go every 24 hours, then more frequent as the deployment deadline gets closer. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Day Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] PC Restarts Hi I am sure it's not unique to this organisation that we have a whole bunch of people who are very reluctant to log-off, and even more reluctant to restart their PC. I proposed that we get the firms agreement for a monthly scheduled re-start for some well publicised day. My hope was that after a month or two it would become ingrained in everyone's memory and would become an accepted part of the IT maintenance calendar. I suggested the 3rd Friday of each month, but in truth the day does not matter too much, it's more about getting the concept accepted. My proposal was not accepted but what was acceptable is a window of a week where the user must accept a re-start. So I guess I start asking them on the Monday and they get to delay it for 24 hours, I ask again on the Tuesday etc. etc. Eventually the grace window will expire and the re-start will be forced upon them. The re-start is always going to be in the maintenance window 2am to 7am. Anyone tried this, been there got the medal, or got any alternative solutions. Also interested to hear of any utilities which might offer this type of facility. Many thanks Phil This email (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately and destroy this email. Do not copy, use or disclose this email. Please note that we do not accept service of court proceedings or any other formal notices by email unless specifically agreed by us in writing. Trowers & Hamlins LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC 337852 whose registered office is at 3 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YZ. Trowers & Hamlins LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The word "partner" is used to refer to a member of Trowers & Hamlins LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications or an individual with equivalent status in one of Trowers & Hamlins LLP's affiliated undertakings. A list of the members of Trowers & Hamlins LLP together with those non-members who are designated as partners is open to inspection at the registered office. For further information see our website, www.trowers.com<http://www.trowers.com/>.Unless it is clearly personal, the sender has sent this email on behalf of Trowers & Hamlins LLP. If the content of this email is personal or otherwise unrelated to our business, we accept no responsibility for its contents. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free. We do not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of email transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version.
