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 Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:11 am |
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| patgmac |
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| When configuring the user interaction behavior for a software package or patch, I would like to have the ability to enable "Restart automatically if machine is at the loginwindow". |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:10 am |
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| bgt |
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Can you provide some use cases for this? I don't quite understand why you want this option or what problem it is meant to solve.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:10 pm |
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| patgmac |
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| bgt wrote: |
Can you provide some use cases for this? I don't quite understand why you want this option or what problem it is meant to solve.
Bao |
Basically, if someone is logged in, I want them to be prompted to reboot when required. I don't want to force them to reboot at any time. But if their machine is logged out, obviously they're not going to care if the machine is rebooted. Without this, do users get prompted after logging back in? I haven't actually tested this yet (still setting things up for the first time).
We had a setting like this in LANDesk but it was PC only (among other things!).
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:01 am |
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| bgt |
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Macworld preparations are getting in the way of us getting a chance to test this for you but my instincts are telling me that if you pick reboot and no one is logged in it will reboot immediately after packages install.
This 2nd part I'm sure about. If someone is logged in and you've picked Restart and set a deadline it will attempt to restart after the deadline has passed. However, if the user has pending changes to an open document it will prompt them to save the changes and wait indefinitely until they save or they click Cancel with stops the reboot altogether. If you pick Force Restart it will reboot without allowing users to save pending changes to open documents.
You've got pretty much the same options in Absolute Manage except that you can't customize the reboot message.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:27 am |
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| patgmac |
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| bgt wrote: |
Macworld preparations are getting in the way of us getting a chance to test this for you but my instincts are telling me that if you pick reboot and no one is logged in it will reboot immediately after packages install.
Bao |
I've confirmed you are right. If the machine is sitting at the login window and a patch is installed that is configured to reboot, the machine will reboot automatically. I discovered this by accident when I noticed a couple servers rebooted (oops, it was 8pm on a saturday so it wasn't so bad in this case).
Thanks. |
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