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Question about automating workstation reboots

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Tom Mihalenko

Hey there,

I love the tool and enjoy many of the features it provides from a endpoint management perspective.

I would like to setup a scheduled job that will do the following:

  • Use PDQ Inventory to dynamically identify workstations that require a reboot (done with PDQ inventory)
  • Schedule a job to use that dynamic collection to send a message to the user stating their workstation needs to be restarted and if they don't restarted in X time, it will be force-ably rebooted (this is where I'm stuck)
  • Reboot after X amount of time (I know how to schedule this)

So, I can manually add the pdq inventory collection to deploy, but is there a way that it will dynamically do it on it's own? I'd prefer not to have to login to deploy after week to update the Target List manually if it could be done dynamically some how. If I can get passed this hurdle, then I should be able to 100% automate the notifications and reboots.

 

Any tips?

 

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    Brigg Angus

    For the first part, set up a Dynamic Collection (e.g. |Computer|Needs Reboot|Is True|).

    For the second part, you would include the message for however long you wanted it to appear, schedule the job or do a one time deployment, and then either link it to the Inventory collection or choose individual targets from the Inventory collection (I prefer the former).

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