Our IT department is very similar to Me, sitting at my desk, right now. Oh hang on, it IS me! *grin*
(In a nutshell- *what* IT department?)
XP SP2's default behaviour, with "automatically download and install updates' selected, resulted in a few machines rebooting overnight. No-one's fiddled with any settings, this is a default SP2 install over a default XP Pro install.
I did however find this wee gem today:
No automatic restart with logged on users... To prevent Automatic Updates from restarting a computer while users are logged on, the administrator can create the NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers registry value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU. The value is a DWORD and must be either 0 (false) or 1 (true). If this value is changed while the computer is in a restart pending state, it will not take effect until the next time an update requires a restart.
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(In a nutshell- *what* IT department?)
XP SP2's default behaviour, with "automatically download and install updates' selected, resulted in a few machines rebooting overnight. No-one's fiddled with any settings, this is a default SP2 install over a default XP Pro install.
I did however find this wee gem today:
No automatic restart with logged on users...
To prevent Automatic Updates from restarting a computer while users are logged on, the administrator can create the NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers registry value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU. The value is a DWORD and must be either 0 (false) or 1 (true). If this value is changed while the computer is in a restart pending state, it will not take effect until the next time an update requires a restart.
sounds promising...