Does WSUS 3 SP1 Client Reboot?

Hello all,

I am gearing up to in-place upgrade our WSUS 2 SP1 server to WSUS 3 SP1. I
understand that a newer WSUS client will get automatically deployed to
support the new server. Does installation of this new client require a
reboot or is it completely transparent?

TIA,

- SB

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SB wrote:
> I am gearing up to in-place upgrade our WSUS 2 SP1 server to WSUS 3 SP1.
> I
> understand that a newer WSUS client will get automatically deployed to
> support the new server. Does installation of this new client require a
> reboot or is it completely transparent?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Forwarded to WSUS newsgroup
> (microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services) via crosspost as a
> convenience to OP.
>
> On the web:
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...pdate_services
>
> In your newsreader:
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...pdate_services
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> ~PA Bear
>
> SB wrote:
>> I am gearing up to in-place upgrade our WSUS 2 SP1 server to WSUS 3 SP1.
>> I
>> understand that a newer WSUS client will get automatically deployed to
>> support the new server.

The WSUS 3 client, at this point, should have already been installed to the
WSUS2 server and deployed via selfupdate last summer, to alleviate several
known issues with the WSUS 2 client.

However, WSUS 3 SP1 also has an updated client which will trigger another
selfupdate once the SP installation is completed.

> Does installation of this new client require a reboot or is it completely
> transparent?

Generally the WUA selfupdate does *not* require a reboot.

HOWEVER... the newly updated WUA will trigger another detection, and if
there are approved updates, those updates may trigger a reboot, making it
appear that the WUA caused the reboot when it was merely the normal update
process.


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