Good morning
I am trying to troubleshoot an issue where my Windows 2012R2 (other servers such as 2008/R2 don't seem to have this problem) servers do not automatically reboot after installing updates despite being configured to do so by group policy.
When viewing the update history on these servers I can see the updates were installed with some having a status of 'successful' but others having a status of 'pending restart'. The servers should have rebooted but haven't. Up until this round of updates
they were rebooting correctly after installing updates. It doesn't make much sense.
Here are the group policy settings I have configured for one of the servers that will not reboot (all the other servers have the same settings except for the scheduled installation date.
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Windows Components/Windows Update | Policy | Setting | Comment |
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| Always automatically restart at the scheduled time | Enabled | | | The restart timer will give users | | this much time to save their | | work (minutes): | 15 |
| | Policy | Setting | Comment |
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| Automatic Updates detection frequency | Enabled | | | Check for updates at the following | | interval (hours): | 22 |
| | Policy | Setting | Comment |
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| Configure Automatic Updates | Enabled | | | Configure automatic updating: | 4 - Auto download and schedule the install | | The following settings are only required and applicable if 4 is selected. | | Install during automatic maintenance | Disabled | | Scheduled install day: | 3 - Every Tuesday | | Scheduled install time: | 06:00 |
| Policy | Setting | Comment |
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| Enable client-side targeting | Enabled | | Target group name for this computer | Windows Update Group
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| Policy | Setting | Comment |
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| Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations | Disabled | | | Specify intranet Microsoft update service location | Enabled | | | Set the intranet update service for detecting updates: | http://wsusserver.domain.local:8530 | | Set the intranet statistics server: | http://wsusserver.domain.local:8530 | | (example: http://IntranetUpd01) |
| Policy | Setting | Comment |
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| Turn on recommended updates via Automatic Updates | Enabled |
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Any advice or insight that can be offered will be greatly appreciated.
Regards