needs to be administrator to get the "reboot later"?

Running Windows2000 in a workgroup environment. I don't want to give my
users administrative privilege but I do want to give them control when to
reboot their machines after installing updates? Is it possible?

Tom wrote:

> Running Windows2000 in a workgroup environment. I don't want to give my
> users administrative privilege but I do want to give them control when to
> reboot their machines after installing updates? Is it possible?
Hi,

There is only one option available to enable the "Restart Later"
button for non-admin users:

If you enable the ElevateNonAdmins AU registry setting (policy title
"Allow non-administrators to receive update notifications"), also
non-admin users will have "Restart Later" available to them, as
long as the NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers policy is enabled as well.

With ElevateNonAdmins set to 1 a non-admin is allowed to select
"Restart Later", and also to use the AU icon in the system tray to
start installations before scheduled installation time (good), as
well as un-select updates that is scheduled to be installed on the
computer (not so good).

With ElevateNonAdmins enabled, the end user experience of Automatic
Updates is completely the same all the way for both admins and
non-admins.

The default is to wait 10 minutes before prompting again with a
scheduled restart. But you can configure how long the wait is
yourself by setting the policy "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled
installations".


This registry file content will enable the ElevateNonAdmins policy:

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate]
"ElevateNonAdmins"=dword:00000001

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