Create a collection with a maintenance window for every Saturday and Sunday then place your critical servers or all servers in the collection. You can set it for all deployments or just Software updates and this way the servers will do nothing during the week unless you manually kick something off in Software Center.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Matt Gerding Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 8:40 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] Patch Deployment Device Restart Behavior Hello, I was hoping to get some feedback for what people are doing to suppress reboots for Windows patch deployments via SCCM. More specifically, if your patch deployment is scheduled, specified as "Required" with no device restart behavior suppression set, how do you stop a client machine or a server from forcefully restarting? In our environment we create separate monthly patch deployments for clients and servers. We set a system restart suppression for workstations when deploying patches to our clients, so user machines never forcefully reboot. However, for our server environment, we do not set any suppression because we don't want to manually reboot all of the 100 + servers. I schedule the server patch deployments on the weekends, and we rarely have issues, but we've seen a couple random servers that have downloaded the patches but for whatever reason the servers don't reboot over the weekend. When I come in on Monday, I'll check the status of the servers and find that these random servers are still "In Progress", and then these servers will forcefully reboot mid-day. In a situation where the server(s) in question are critical system servers, and are attempting to reboot mid-day, people obviously freak out. Is there a way to override this so I don't have a server rebooting mid-day? Regards, Matthew Gerding Information Technology Centurion Medical Products 517.540.1618 www.centurionmp.com<http://www.centurionmp.com/> ************************* PATIENT CARE WITHOUT COMPROMISE(tm)
