So what about controlling the weekend by not approving the updates until Friday night. Then control the install and reboot time with a GPO?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 1:11 PM To: [email protected]; Patch Management Mailing List Subject: [NTSysADM] How best to schedule installing updates without SCCM? Right now, we set our servers to receive updates from WSUS, but not to install; they just download. We then manually install and reboot the servers, during scheduled down times. (we do this because we have application environments that need to be shutdown via web interface, before gracefully rebooting the servers). Or we used to, anyway. Now, most of my servers are at a position where they can install updates on a schedule, without manual intervention. (no need to shutdown an environment via web interface anymore) The problem is, we don't use SCCM, so we don't have an easy way to schedule updates. I only have Group Policy, and I don't know how to set that to have the servers *only* install updates during a specific time frame during a specific weekend (meaning: only install approved updates on Oct 23, between midnight and 5PM, as an example). Thoughts? Used to be, 3 of us would work overtime one Sunday and install the updates manually. Now they don't want us to need to have to do that (well, one person, as I do still have a few servers that I want to do by hand, mostly because they all depend on 1 SQL server, and if that SQL server reboots, not all the servers gracefully deal with that)
