I do the same thing (SCCM 2007) all laptops & some desktops that cannot be rebooted (1000+) apply patches during the day silently suppressing any reboots. Usually natural shutdown / restart attrition allows them to become compliant. Some users need a reminder but that is just my environment. This has worked for us for many years, we do use 1E Wakeup and Maint Windows for the other desktops across our footprint.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 8:13 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] A tool idea related to Maintenace Widow discussion I believe you are perfectly describing the software that 1e sells. What I've done in the past for laptops is to ignore maintenance windows, patch completely silently and do not reboot. I've never had a single complaint doing that for 8 years now. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Miller, Todd <todd-mil...@uiowa.edu<mailto:todd-mil...@uiowa.edu>> wrote: All the discussion of Maintenance Windows has me thinking about a significant gap in the SCCM product. Maintenance windows are pretty terrific for clients that are always on like servers, but are not so hot for clients that go to sleep. It is missing in the product to schedule a wake up at the start of the next MW if there is a deferred installation pending. It would be cool if someone with skillz could write a shim that computes whether there is a deferred installation waiting for the next MW. The shim could subscribe to sleep/shutdown event and run just prior to the machine going to sleep and schedule the computer to wake at the start of the MW if there is a deferred installation pending. It doesn’t solve the laptop problem with MWs, but it sure would make them more reliable for plugged in but sleep enabled computers. I know you can set the power settings to wake the computer up for the MW, but there are two problems with that. The first is that the computer will frequently wake up unnecessarily with no scheduled task to perform. The second problem is that the go back to sleep timer is usually set to 2 minutes which is frequently too short for SCCM to discover it has a task to run ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________ ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
