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So Our domain consists of a BUNCH of 2008 R2 servers and some 20012 servers. The GPO is set up to do updates every so often and blah blah blah.

Here is my pickle. Servers 2008 updating like a charm, however Server 2012 are behaving like a temperamental teenager. There’s a setting called Automatic Maintenance (set by default to 2am.) NO NO NO. If i set the updates through GPO for 10pm that means i want the updates to run and reboot the server at that time. I don’t want the AUTOMATIC MAINTENANCE to wait till 2:00am to install the updates and then on top of that wait for a user to tell OS to reboot or wait for 24hrs to reboot automatically.

I have not seen anything in Group Policy for me to be able to change that.

Any suggestions on how to make my servers not do this and install and reboot when i tell them to, through GPO?

Now going forward i think i can change this setting in the VMware template that i deploy (will test that) but i would like to change the setting on the 150 existing servers without having to log into each one of them.

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See if this article helps.

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@davidurner Dude, are you coming to Spiceworld? I owe you at least the first round.

That’s exactly what i was looking for.

Yes there’s a GP setting for all of this.

Thank you Sir.

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Sadly no but to be fair I found this out after being logged in to a Server 2012 R2 overnight and having it reboot immediately when I logged out in the middle of the day.

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Either way that’s what i was looking for.