Does WSUS "Deadline" override "No auto-restart"?

Last night we had a bit of a hiccup in our WSUS update process. A bunch of
servers were rebooted, even though we had select the "No auto-restart for
scheduled ... installations"

We are using:
WSUS (SP1)
Windows 2000 and 2003 (mixed)

Group Policy settings:
Configure Automatic Updates:
- Automatically download updates and install
- Nightly 3:00am
No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates

The updates were pushed out with a deadline of 8/19/2006 (today is 8/18).

Some servers restarted, some did not. So far, I have not found a consistent
thread to indicate why a particular server did or did not restart.

In our test environment, we have an identical configuration. The only
exception is that the updates were not pushed out with a deadline.

???

Regards,

hmscott

You'd be better off posting this issue to the Windows Update
Services(WSUS) newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...pdate_services

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
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*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
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hmscott wrote:

> Last night we had a bit of a hiccup in our WSUS update process. A bunch of
> servers were rebooted, even though we had select the "No auto-restart for
> scheduled ... installations"
>
> We are using:
> WSUS (SP1)
> Windows 2000 and 2003 (mixed)
>
> Group Policy settings:
> Configure Automatic Updates:
> - Automatically download updates and install
> - Nightly 3:00am
> No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates
>
> The updates were pushed out with a deadline of 8/19/2006 (today is 8/18).
>
> Some servers restarted, some did not. So far, I have not found a consistent
> thread to indicate why a particular server did or did not restart.
>
> In our test environment, we have an identical configuration. The only
> exception is that the updates were not pushed out with a deadline.
>
> ???
>
> Regards,
>
> hmscott
>
>

Done. Thanks.

"MowGreen [MVP]" wrote:

> You'd be better off posting this issue to the Windows Update
> Services(WSUS) newsgroup:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...pdate_services
>
> MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
> ===============
> *-343-* FDNY
> Never Forgotten
> ===============
>
>
> hmscott wrote:
>
> > Last night we had a bit of a hiccup in our WSUS update process. A bunch of
> > servers were rebooted, even though we had select the "No auto-restart for
> > scheduled ... installations"
> >
> > We are using:
> > WSUS (SP1)
> > Windows 2000 and 2003 (mixed)
> >
> > Group Policy settings:
> > Configure Automatic Updates:
> > - Automatically download updates and install
> > - Nightly 3:00am
> > No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates
> >
> > The updates were pushed out with a deadline of 8/19/2006 (today is 8/18).
> >
> > Some servers restarted, some did not. So far, I have not found a consistent
> > thread to indicate why a particular server did or did not restart.
> >
> > In our test environment, we have an identical configuration. The only
> > exception is that the updates were not pushed out with a deadline.
> >
> > ???
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > hmscott
> >
> >
>