Hi Daniel I think that might be a bit of a tricky thing to implement. Might it be better to work with the server owners to reboot their systems proactively after booting?
You could very easily create a bunch of collections which represented a schedule, populate it with direct memberships of servers and apply a maintenance window. If these collections had a limiting collection of reboot pending then that'd do it at a known time > On 3 Jul 2014, at 02:51, "Corkill, Daniel" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > This seems to be the most comprehensive solution. I’ve posted a comment on > that article asking if Santos has any thoughts on working his process into my > requirement of rebooting servers pending a reboot 30 mins prior to update > installation. Here’s hoping. > > Daniel. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jason Wallace > Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2014 9:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Reboot servers pending a reboot prior to updates > > Hi John > > If you are looking for devices with a pending reboot then > http://blogs.technet.com/b/smartinez/archive/2014/06/27/reboot-pending-report-how-to-create-the-report.aspx > would offer you an end to end solution for any reboots pending > > Jason > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mssms] RE: Reboot servers pending a reboot prior to updates > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 11:09:25 +0000 > > Mine isn’t as complex as this, but it only checks for pending reboots from > Windows Update. It wouldn’t be hard to add the other pending reboot location > in there as well. > > $reboot =Test-Path > 'hklm:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto > Update\RebootRequired' > > if ($reboot -eq 'True'){Restart-Computer localhost -force}ELSE {} > > > This is the command I push out to use it. I ran into issues with 32 vs. 64 > bit powershell and hitting different parts of registry. > > %systemroot%\sysnative\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -executionpolicy > unrestricted .\NeedReboot.ps1 > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Corkill, Daniel > Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mssms] Reboot servers pending a reboot prior to updates > > I want to advertise a script to servers during our maintenance window, 30mins > prior to the updates deadline, that will check for reboots pending on the box > and if there are any, reboot it. > > I’ve found the get-rebootpending PS script here: > http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-PendingReboot-Query-bdb79542#content > but it’s unclear to me whether this will pickup reboots pending from new > device installs, which is important to us. Someone asks for this > functionality in the comments but it’s never subsequently mentioned. There > also doesn’t appear to be anyway to use this script to trigger a reboot if > one is pending. > > Is anyone else using something similar? > > Daniel. > > > > > ********************************************************************* > This email, including any attachment, is confidential to the intended > recipient. It may also be privileged and may be subject to copyright. If > you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately > and delete all copies of the email. Any confidentiality or privilege is not > waived. Neither the Council nor the sender warrant that this email does not > contain any viruses or other unsolicited items. > > This email is an informal Council communication. 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