wilbywilson: thanks for the reply. Im not supressing the reboot, so i can allow it to reboot in the window. but it xp machines don't make it to the window. When I suppress restart on my xp or w7 collections, the maintenance window comes and never restarts.. I change it to not suppress.. the w7 machines reboot inside the window but the xp machines reboot before the window ever happens.
I have noticed that xp machines are rebooted by winlogon.exe and windows 7 machines are rebooted by ccmexec.exe not sure if this has anything to do with the xp machines not waiting for the window, the following events from when I ran a maintenance window test.. the window was from 3:30p to 6:30p
xp:
Event Type: Information Event Source: USER32 Event Category: None Event ID: 1074 Date: 6/13/2014 Time: 2:11:56 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: CCS-XPMWI-613-4 Description: The process winlogon.exe has initiated the restart of CCS-XPMWI-613-4 for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found Minor Reason: 0x1 Shutdown Type: reboot Comment: Your computer will restart at 06/13/2014 02:11:56 PM to complete the installation of applications and software updates.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
win7:
Log Name: System Source: USER32 Date: 6/13/2014 4:35:54 PM Event ID: 1074 Task Category: None Level: Information Keywords: Classic User: SYSTEM Computer: ccs-w7mwi-613-3.lmhealth.org Description: The process C:\Windows\CCM\CcmExec.exe (CCS-W7MWI-613-3) has initiated the restart of computer CCS-W7MWI-613-3 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found Reason Code: 0x80020001 Shutdown Type: restart Comment: Your computer will restart at 06/13/2014 04:50:54 PM to complete the installation of applications and software updates.