Re: SUM Question
Karl
Date: 04/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:55:55 -0400
It's not so bad.
yes, SMS and the patches both have ways to surpress the reboot and you can
have issues with the settings overriding each other. (FOr example, a patch
that reboots but SMS supresses it)
If you want to be sure that you are going to properly allow the user to
reboot, have the patch NOT reboot the system but have SMS reboot it with a 5
minute or however long you need timer to allow the user(s) to save thier
work. Just make sure you choose the correct option to have 'SMS restarts
the computer', else you may not have the PC get rebooted
Once the patches are installed, SMS will then finish the advertisement and
then start the reboot sequence. I generally prefer to allow SMS to control
the reboot since you have more control on the clients not losing any work.
Alo, if the clients are not there and have unsaved work, be careful!
Forcing the system to restart w/o an user input is a BAD thing as they can
lose their work and get quite mad at YOU! :)
Once done, check that there were no issues with the advertisment failing.
Next, verify that the systems have been indeed rebooted. Make a query to
look at the last restart times of the systems and verify they indeed
restarted. Then check to make sure the patches have been installed
properly.
There is a lot of micro-managing software deployment and many issues can
arise as a result. Check thru all the SMS Console staus reports for any
issues as well :)
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