Re: WSUS/Reboot

From: jordanpw (jordanpw_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/17/05

  • Next message: David LeBlanc: "RE: WSUS/Reboot" 
    Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:26:37 -0500
To: "Benjamin B. Williams" <benw@gwu.edu>

    There's probably a much neater / slicker script for this somewhere, but
    you can sort of 'unslickly' script this with a series of shutdown
    commands in a batch file right? Using its switches to specify
    servernames and timeout before shutdown for each - once you have your
    maintenance window agreed with management ...

    Benjamin B. Williams wrote:

    >Ron,
    >
    >What I usually do is download the updates to the WSUS server, then use Group
    >Policy to configure all servers to download (but not install) the updates.
    >Then I manually install/reboot in an order that minimizes specific downtimes
    >of services.
    >
    >Then again, I don't have 150 boxes. It may be in your best interests to
    >schedule them via Group Policy to auto-install and reset -- perhaps not all
    >at once but in blocks?
    >
    >Benjamin B. Williams, MCSE
    >Senior Programmer/Analyst
    >Academic Technologies
    >The George Washington University
    >
    >202-994-7611 (p)
    >202-994-3600 (f)
    >202-412-4697 (m)
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Ronald Balk [mailto:r.balk@nl.intrum.com]
    >Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 5:31 AM
    >To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    >Subject: WSUS/Reboot
    >
    >
    >Hiya all,
    >
    >We have been testing with this new WSUS from MS.
    >All seems fine -;)
    >My question is how to handle the server reboots after a installed
    >security patch which requires a reboot.
    >We hold about 150 servers, mixed Exchange, reverse proxy, Sql etc.etc.
    >Whats the best way to manage this ?
    >
    >Thanks
    >Ronald Balk
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