tiger123

Bumpty bump bump

Hi All First time poster, long time user of these forums and fantastic guides. Anyweb you've done a great job with these. I'm an experienced SMS / SCCM admin and recently our org made the jump to SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 and over time have been migrating clients to it. I have an issue in controlling 'end user experience' with relation to updates. My requirements are fairly simple in that I have two main groups of computers for which different behavior is required. Group 1: General windows workstations - receive updates when made available, install but prompt for reboots Group 2: Contact Center workstations - receive updates and reboot only during Maint Window. Maint window is 12 hrs (1900-0700) machines wake at 0500 each day. My approach was to achieve this with one deployment and have Maintenance Window applied to collection for Contact Center handle that requirement for Group 2. From testing this was not an issue and Group 2 behavior was achieved. My SUG deployment setings are: Type: Required Scheduling: Deadline set to 1 year in advance User exp: Display and show all notifications User exp: Deadline behavior - none checked Device Restart: Only server checked However for Group 1 the agent installs the updates and then commences a forced restart countdown (Your computer is about to restart). What I want is a prompt for restart and then at the deadline to force it occurs at that time. The deadline is in the future by weeks. Checking Software Center I can see that the restart is scheduled for the deadline. Have I missed something here or am experience something abnormal? I have tried to remove any residual policy settings from Automatic Updates during my testing but this has never changed the user experience. Thanks for any help here you guys can offer. Tiger

Hi All First time poster, long time user of these forums and fantastic guides. Anyweb you've done a great job with these. I'm an experienced SMS / SCCM admin and recently our org made the jump to SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 and over time have been migrating clients to it. I have an issue in controlling 'end user experience' with relation to updates. My requirements are fairly simple in that I have two main groups of computers for which different behavior is required. Group 1: General windows workstations - receive updates when made available, install but prompt for reboots Group 2: Contact Center workstations - receive updates and reboot only during Maint Window. Maint window is 12 hrs (1900-0700) machines wake at 0500 each day. My approach was to achieve this with one deployment and have Maintenance Window applied to collection for Contact Center handle that requirement for Group 2. From testing this was not an issue and Group 2 behavior was achieved. My SUG deployment setings are: Type: Required Scheduling: Deadline set to 1 year in advance User exp: Display and show all notifications User exp: Deadline behavior - none checked Device Restart: Only server checked However for Group 1 the agent installs the updates and then commences a forced restart countdown (Your computer is about to restart). What I want is a prompt for restart and then at the deadline to force it occurs at that time. The deadline is in the future by weeks. Checking Software Center I can see that the restart is scheduled for the deadline. Have I missed something here or am experience something abnormal? I have tried to remove any residual policy settings from Automatic Updates during my testing but this has never changed the user experience. Thanks for any help here you guys can offer. Tiger