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Deploy a package to a group of servers but only reboot the servers one at a time

Simon T

November 06, 2018 20:06

I am running a custom windows update script against a number of windows servers. The script or even PDQ deploy has an option to reboot the machine. But is it possible to only reboot 1 machine at a time. I can not have all the servers down at once and they have to be taken down one at a time if possible?

Server One, Deploy package, If Successfully reboot, When Server One backup Deploy to Server Two

Comments

3 comments

Wei
November 07, 2018 16:18

You can do it with schedules.

Schedule 1 - Deploy Windows update to all the servers but don't reboot (target all the servers)

Schedule 2 - Run a PowerShell script to reboot them according to your logic (run it on the local host)

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Simon T
November 14, 2018 02:18

Hi Wei, I am not familiar with Schedules how would that stop more than 1 server rebooting at a time ?

I kind of need to limit a deployment to only deploy to one machine at a time, but that seems to be a global option rather than based on a task.

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Wei
November 16, 2018 16:25
I am not suggesting using Schedules to stop servers rebooting.

My point is that you can use PDQ to push out the patch directly or run your script on all targets at once but don't reboot. then write a simple PowerShell script to reboot your servers one at time (require PowerShell remoting enabled), you can use PDQ to run it locally.

The code would look like this
```
Restart-Computer -ComputerName $svr1 -Confirm:$false -Wait -For WinRM 

Start-Sleep -Seconds 300

Restart-Computer -ComputerName $svr2 -Confirm:$false -Wait -For WinRM 

Start-Sleep -Seconds 300

Restart-Computer -ComputerName $svr3 -Confirm:$false -Wait -For WinRM 
```
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