Re: Timed Restart/Reboot of Windows


"Ron Sochanski" <RonSochanski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Herb Martin" wrote:

Why do you want this?

Most people who are trying to shutdown servers regularly are messing
up.

And for hotfixes and such from automatic updates that is part of the
settings for those.

I'd like to shutdown and restart certain machines at designated times
because after manually applying Windows patches/updates to those machines,
I
generally cannot restart those machines immediately afterward. The
restart
must be delayed until after hours.

A schedule job with shutdown will do that. (Shutdown itself can only wait
up to
10 minutes.)


This is company policy. In some cases,
the machine in question may have active database RDBMS connections, in
which
case designated-time machine restart would not be applicable since data
corruption could result. In this case, manual verification that no active
connections exist on the machine is required. I like to apply
patches/updates manually to these machines in order to first ensure that
each
patch/update does not have any known issues with applications running on
the
machine.

The above makes sense -- you question sounded like one we hear fairly
frequently about people trying to reboot servers "just because".

Use a scheduled task. If you get familiar you can do it quickly from the
command prompt: schtasks.exe OR if prefer you can use the GUI to
do the scheduling.

I don't believe Automatic Upates can allow me to "OK" patches
before they are applied. If I am in error please advise.

No, that makes sense, I have seen updates take out a server so it wouldn't
reboot -- but not recently. They are getting better at testing these.


--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)


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