You control that with Maintenance Windows. On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Matt Gerding <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <(517)%20540-1618> > > www.centurionmp.com > > ••••••••••••••••••••••••• > > *PATIENT CARE WITHOUT COMPROMISE™* > > > >
