I sent you a way to do it. On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Erno, Cynthia M (ITS) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Sherri. > > I was hoping that was not the answer since too many of our servers are not > rebooting after having been patched with SCCM. > > No reboot = machine not in compliance. > > And yes, we’ve checked the group policies of all the domains and there > isn’t any consistency in them as well – meaning some have > > the group policy setting enabled for “ no auto-restart with logged on > users…” and some do not. So, we really need a force reboot > > we can count on to happen for all. If anyone thinks of anyway to pull it > off, let me know please. > > > > *Cynthia Erno* > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sherry Kissinger > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 08, 2016 1:56 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [mssms] SCCM force reboot after patching > > > > *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* > > This is what I believe is meant by that. > > Let's say you have a Software Update Group with all of this months' > patches inside it, which every workstation in your environment deserves; > but Accounting LOB wants to reboot when they feel like it; and everyone > else gets patched, and they are required to reboot in the XX minutes you've > defined for normal notifications. > > > > So you have two collections: Accounting LOB, and "All workstations, > excluding Accounting LOB" > > You have two Deployments of that same Software Update Group; and to the > Accounting, you check the boxes under "User Experience" to Suppress the > system restart on workstations. > > and to the deployment targeting "all workstations excluding accounting", > you don't check that suppress system restart workstation; in which case > those targets get the normal countdown timer (whatever it is you have > defined) for post-patching restarts, if a restart is required. > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Erno, Cynthia M (ITS) < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I found a doc that claims that sccm 2012 has the ability to force a reboot > after patching: > > “Through SCCM, we can easily define or *Customize Restart behaviour *for > different LOBs (Line Of Business). Often, seen that some LOBs required > their systems to be forcefully restarted after patching but some are > interested to supress reboot until the end user reboot the system.” > > > > Does anyone know how to implement this ability in SCCM? > > > > *Cynthia Erno* > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thank you, > > Sherry Kissinger > > > My Parameters: Standardize. Simplify. Automate > Blogs: http://www.mofmaster.com, http://mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger, > http://www.smguru.org > > > >
