Hi,
I have a Group Policy Object that specifies all the required WSUS and Automatic Update settings, which is applied to my Servers OU.
All of my servers honour the GPO policy settings, which is set to Automatically download and to notify when to install patches.
However, some servers, both Server 2003 r2 and Server 2008 R2, decide that after a few weeks of running, they revert to Automatically download and install patches at 3am. (which causes unscheduled reboots in the middle of the night)
When the server reboots I can see in the Computer Properties > Automatic Update settings, the setting to automatically install, however when I run gpupdate /force /target:computer, the Automatic Update settings correct themselves back to Notify.
I have checked for any conflicting GPOs and there are none.
Any ideas why the Group Policy engine isn't refreshing the Windows Update settings?
Regards
Steven Wells