Our environment consists of 15-20 Windows 2008 virtual servers, and ideally I would like for updates to download and install at a specified time. Getting that right seems easy enough via GPO, but what I am trying to avoid is the server auto-restarting afterwards. My goal is to just be able to go in manually after scheduled updates should have occurred and reboot the server on my own.
I can see where you can enable "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations", but my concern is the "logged on users" part.
Meaning, I log on and off to my servers via RDP to do anything. So with that in mind, if my scheduled updates are taking place late at night when nobody is "logged on", it would seem this setting would have it auto-restart because nobody appears logged on. Am I thinking correctly on this?