Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

dancona — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:29:40 GMT

Great Post! If anyone had any gaps in the AU process and behavior, this closed them! Keep these kind of articles coming!

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beldridge — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:37:50 GMT

I left my machine for an automatic reboot. But when I returned it was hung on the shutdown screen. After I turned it off then on, it won't complete the boot cycle. It hangs when doing the chip test.

Is there a part of the update cycle that can fry my chips? My first guess is that one of my memory sticks is fried... I hope. It could be worse.

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Mirth — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:59:21 GMT

What is the interaction between Update Deadlines and the "No auto-restart with logged on users..." group policy setting? Is the deadline ignored? Can the user put off the reboot indefinitely?

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windows update agent — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:56:44 GMT

Try here, fixed for me; http://www.computer-juice.com/forums/f48/windows-update-agent-5-8-02469-download-11887/

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Hypotheken — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:43:19 GMT

Great post, exactly what I was looking for. I couldn't find the delay restart for scheduled installations.

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Frank III — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:13:42 GMT

This question may relate to Mrith's question above...

Is there a difference between the computer configuration setting for windows update if it is stated as...

A>>>>>"No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations..." There are 15 selections here compared to 11 in the below gpedit.msc why?

Compared to...

B>>>>>'No auto-restart for scheduled automatic updates installations"?????????????

Regardless if the later system with the gpedit.msc setting is enabled the system still seems to reboot.

Questions

1.) is there a difference between the two statements A and B?

2.) why are they different? both systems are XP V. 2002 sp3

3.) I have read that this "no auto restart" is over-ridden if there is a "deadline" set. Is this the case?

4.) If so where is this deadline set?

I have users that regardless of our request shut machines down and therefore don't get updates.

But, they are running scientific research devices that when are automatically shut down have the potential to loose Irrecoverable data. This is an unacceptable situation.

How can I stop this from occuring? Aside from getting my users to keep there systems up at 3am on sunday?

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Frank III — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:14:20 GMT

Please respond to mcateefw@upmc.edu and frankmcatee@hotmail.com for the above questions.

Thanks!

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Matthew — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:04:02 GMT

Great post! I have founded answers to my problems with Group policy editor. Thy for this post once again!

re: Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

klobo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:08:01 GMT

oops, just set up a new Vista Home Premium system and enabled automatic updates. And this morning I see my system was rebooted and several pieces of in-progress work were lost.

IMO this is totally unacceptable behaviour. Losing customer data is a critical defect! I see from this post that I can purchase an OS upgrade in order to override this behaviour. Thanks, Microsoft.

I will work around this defect by disabling automatic installation. But that won't bring back my lost work. :-(

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