"Stephen Padgett" <StephenPadgett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Hi Guys.
>
> As some of you saw lower down i had issues with scheduling restarts and
> such
> for my clients and in the end configured machines to install updates on
> shutdown and specifying in GPO that the shutdown default should be
> "install
> updates and shut down".
>
> The configure au is set to option 3, auto download and notify.
>
> However after about half a week of the machines being set to do this they
> are still restarting, i still have NO RESTART for logged on users enabled
> but
> they keep restarting the clients.
>
> I just had a class of 30 laptops bomb out in the middle of a lesson which
> isnt what i want.
>
> Why is this happening?
Post the logs of one of these machines that did what they did, and the logs
can be analyzed to identify exactly what happened.
The only way I know of, though, for an update to ignore the "No
Auto-Restart..." policy is if it had a deadline configured that expired
during your class and forced the installation of the update.
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