PENDING Force a reboot after patching even if reboot is not required.

[kadeporter]

We have a standard practice of rebooting servers monthly immediately after month patches get applied. I am new to SCCM and our previous patching solution had a dummy patch that got applied at the end of patching which initiated a reboot whether required or not by the monthly patches we applied. We are transitioning to SCCM now for patching. Does anyone know of a method that will automatically reboot the client machine after any round of patches?

 

[Prajwal Desai]

You can do that using maintenance window in SCCM. Check these posts -

https://prajwaldesai.com/configure-maintenance-windows-in-system-center-configuration-manager/

https://blog.hosebei.ch/2013/05/29/sccm-2012-reboot-after-installation-in-maintenance-window/

 

[kadeporter]

You can do that using maintenance window in SCCM. Check these posts -

https://prajwaldesai.com/configure-maintenance-windows-in-system-center-configuration-manager/

https://blog.hosebei.ch/2013/05/29/sccm-2012-reboot-after-installation-in-maintenance-window/

Thank you for replying Prajwal! Forgive my ignorance but will setting a maintenance window force a reboot after updates that do not require a reboot? That is what I'm trying to implement and plan for so that if ever a month comes where the required patches to not require a reboot by Microsoft when completed that I can still make sure that machine gets rebooted for the month.

 

[Edy]

In your ADR deployment settings, if you check the the System Restart (if necessary) box in the Deadline behavior then it will fix your issue?