Question to Restart After Win Updates Installed - No Button Greyed

From: Pat Walters [MSFT] (a-patwal_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:53 -0800

Louis,

This is "by-design" behavior. The following facts are
true:

1. The machine does NOT automatically reboot after the
install, per the No Auto-Restart for Scheduled Automatic
Updates Installations policy.

2. The user does not have high enough privileges to
say "No," per your own domain policy.

3. The user apparently has elevated enough privileges to
say "Yes" to rebooting.

There is a small delay you can use. The policy
RescheduleWaitTime can be set anywhere from 1 to 60 (in
minutes).

This is just a suggestion from me, but if it were possible
for you to set the install time to a more convenient hour
for your students--such as 3am--then your students could
walk into the lab and reboot the machines after they log
on. Their work time would be minimally hindered by a
reboot, unless they were trying to print their term paper
at 7:30am for an 8am deadline!

Please let me know if this helps.

Sincerely,

Pat Walters [MSFT]

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I'm experimenting automating Windows Update for computer
lab clients at the
>university I work for. The clients are Windows XP SP1,
and Windows XP SP2,
>and they all login to Windows Server 2003 Active
Directory.
>
>I'm forcing the updates via Group Policy in the Group
Policy Management
>Console Snapin. I've configured the following Policy
settings and applied
>them towards a test OU:
>
>* Configure Windows Updates - Enabled, with Option #4
(Automatically
>download and Install the Updates based on the Specified
Schedule - which is
>daily at 4:00pm). This seems to work OK.
>
>* Specify Intranet Microsoft Update Service Location -
Enabled, and a server
>designated for retrieving and catalogging updates is
specified as both the
>detecting server and the statistics server. This seems to
work OK.
>
>* No Auto Restart for Scheduled Automatic Updates
Installations - Enabled.
>This is where I seem to be having my problem. I enable
this policy because I
>don't want to force the reboot at the exact moment in
time the updates are
>installed. It is acceptable in our environment to wait
until the machine gets
>rebooted by an intervening user naturally (this happens
often). However, even
>though I've enabled this policy, after the updates
install, the client
>exhibits a strange behavior and says:
>
>"Your updates have been installed successfully. To
Complete Installation,
>you must restart your computer. Do you want to Restart
your Computer Now?"
>and displays a "YES" and "NO" button. Here's the problem:
THE NO BUTTON IS
>GREYED OUT, so the user can't click it. They are forced
to say yes, since the
>message screen cannot be closed or moved and is right in
the middle of the
>screen.
>
>I didn't expect to see this prompt because I have the "No
Auto-Restart for
>Scheduled Automatic Updates Installations" policy enabled.
>
>What can I do to fix this? Has anyone else experienced
this problem?
>
>
>
>Thanks in Advance and HELP,
>Louis
>.
>

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