Scheduled Updates Reboots Machines

From: Charlie (sulliaef@bc.edu)
Date: 03/27/03 

From: "Charlie" <sulliaef@bc.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:03:12 -0800

Hi
We have 200+ XP Pro machines on an NT4 Network. Windows
Updates are set to automatically download and then
install @3AM every night. Our users do not have Admin
rights so they are not prompted to install them after the
download. We've been doing this since Novemeber with no
apparent problems until last week - The updates rebooted
the machines automatically. Needless to say, a lot of
users don't log off as they should and some don't even
close their apps. One user lost a new document that he
had left open. Another keeps a Web accessible Filemaker
DB running which closed down. I didn't realize when I
set these up that there would be forced reboots. Is
there any documentation on this? Any ideas about a
better solution for our environment?
Thanks

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