We have all of our servers using maintenance windows and automatically installing updates and rebooting themselves weekly (if there’s anything to do), our deployments are required and deadline immediately, so the maintenance windows stop them from doing anything until then. Our deployments are also set to show everything in the software center so if an admin logs on to their server at some point before their server’s maintenance window, they’re free to install anything they want any time they want and reboot it too, they are, after all, the admin of the server. But I have to keep up with compliance so if they don’t log in and do it themselves, sccm will do it during the defined and agreed upon by everybody maintenance window.
And adam is correct you can control the reboot behavior inside/outside a MW or not. We also have the same SUG’s deployed as available updates for individual use servers or servers without maintenance windows, like vm’s on desktops and stuff like that, so those folks can control that/ignore that as long as they want. I don’t have to keep track of compliance for those devices, so it’s much more like wsus or Microsoft update at that point, just delivered through SCCM. ADR’s put updates into SUGs every month and the deployments update with the new updates, and then show up in the software center. Todd From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juelich, Adam Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 4:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] MW and Server Restart behavior question You can also specify, I believe within the deployment, to Never Restart Clients or Servers. ----------------------------------------------- Adam Juelich Pulaski Community School District<http://www.pulaskischools.org> Client Management Specialist 920-822-6075 On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Todd Hemsell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: maintenance windows do not apply AT ALL if the user initiates it. no affect whatsoever. I do know that aspect of the answer. It is in the docs somewhere. On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Brian McDonald <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Good afternoon, I have a collection that contains PROD servers which have a weekly MW schedule every Sat. I setup a Software Updates Deployment to this collection with the following settings: Type of Deployment: Available Software Available time: Specific Time: 2AM Installation Deadline: As soon as possible (this is default) User Experience - both Deadline behavior and Device Restart behavior is greyed out. My requirement is to be able to have app owners manually download/install updates. But, I also need to make sure that SCCM isn't forcing a reboot. A two-part question. 1) If Updates are in Software Center and the user downloads/installs will SCCM force a reboot? OR 2) will it wait for the next MW to reboot? I'm trying to better understand the behavior. Thanks, Brian ________________________________ The Pulaski Community School District does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected under State or Federal law.
