Suggestion: On my mission critical servers, I actually have the automatic updates service stopped, and in the manual state.
I start the service ONLY during maint. periods when I need it. Prevents things like this happening, and avoids accidently clicking the update icon in the tray. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Jay Dale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WSUS question Got burned with WSUS after finding out that even if you tell it not to restart, if the update applied is old enough, it will restart anyways...:( Jay -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WSUS question Do you guys use WSUS for server updates? If so, how do you handle auto-restarts? We don't want any automatic restarts based on updates, we want notification that it needs to be restarted, but we want to manually do that. If not, how do you handle updates for your servers? Thanks, Joseph L. Heaton Windows Server Support Group Information Technology Branch Department of Fish and Game 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
