Windows 10 restart notifications after updates
Hello Guys,
lately i have brought all windows systems up to date with PDQ Deploy.
Windows will require to reboot in order to properly install these updates. However, our computers do not shut down every night and stay on 24/7.
I do not want to force the restart, because there may be some virtual machines and important documents still opened.
I have found group policies that meet my requirements perfectly but unfortunately do not work when I install the updates via PDQ Deploy. Maybe it's because our domain structure is too old (server 2008) or there may be a problem with the Update Packages.
Here is a link to the Microsoft TechNet article about these GPOs:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart
How do you manage restarts of your windows 10 computers?
Comments
First: Server 2008 shoud be able to handle Win 10 Clients via GPO, if it doesen't work you have to look deeper. Have you downloaded the latest ADMX files?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=56880
The Shut Down problem is a self made problem:
I shut down all "non critical" Workstations at 9am via PDQ Deploy and a self made collection in Inventory. It's not IT's fault that "someone" missed to shut down his Workstation and didn't saved his work. It's a clear rule that Workstations don't run 24/7.
Thank you for the response Christian. The GPOs got applied, all registry keys are set correctly. The latest ADMX files are installed.
Forcing the shutdown of the uncritical workstations would solve the Problem, thats true. But i want to give our employees the chance to define a time to restart their workstation by themself.
Apart from that, the group policies should work like intendet. And there must be some process or Task that triggers the restart notification. I cant find it anywhere, Google doesnt help me either.
Hi Lukas,
i mean 9pm not 9am (sorry), every user can shutdown his Workstation after work, if not, the script kicks in at night.
I think your problem is the sleeping mode, look for the GPO to prevent the sleeping mode during updates (or the Option to wake up, i'm not sure)
Another Solution: Ask for the Shutdown via PowerShell
First Step in your Shutdown Script ist this PowerShell line:
exit (new-object -ComObject wscript.shell).Popup("Updates are installed, can we restart the Workstation now? (If not the Workstation shutdown automatical at 9pm)",120,"Package Install?",36)
You Need the success Code 6 for this, because a "yes" gives back this code to PDQ.
Put him in under details in the step.