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Alrighty then, you log on to your Windows Server 2012, to briefly see a message that you think says “Windows Updates requires a restart, you computer will automatically restart in 2 days.”<\/p>\n
Or was that two minutes. The message flashed by so quick, I decided to disconnect from my remote, and log in again to see what it said. It flashed by almost as quick, but I was looking and yes it said two days. Made a decision to restart it after business hours today, did my changes on a Hyper-V machine and logged off.<\/p>\n
Less than a minute later my phone lit up… fortunately from the nature of the calls, I had a suspicion what the problem was and tried to get back to the server. A short walk later and I saw that it was applying updates. Hey Microsoft—WHAAAT’S UP!!!<\/p>\n
I wouldn’t have brought this up, but this is the third time this has happened to me in the past couple of months, and I and most of my users are not pleased. Should a server restart when you disconnect or logoff when it is pending restart? Should a pending restart message be displayed a little longer than a blink of an eye? What happened to orderly shutdowns? And don’t you think a server with multiple Hyper-V clients should be required to shutdown in an orderly fashion?<\/p>\n
And one more question…who was the brain surgeon who thought putting a “Metro” view on a server was a good idea?<\/p>\n
If any of my Spicehead friends could please enlighten or guide me on some better practices I would be most grateful! ;~)<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"answerCount":6,"datePublished":"2014-07-10T14:28:57.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"paulyounghaus","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/paulyounghaus"},"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Are you having your servers automatically apply updates? If so, I’d look at deploying WSUS to manage your updates. And no, the server shouldn’t automatically reboot (unless the updates had been applied for two days already). I routinely reboot the evening of an update that requires it (well after business hours)<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"datePublished":"2014-07-10T14:35:14.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/windows-server-2012-restarts-without-commands/320150/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"herr-director","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/herr-director"}},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Alrighty then, you log on to your Windows Server 2012, to briefly see a message that you think says “Windows Updates requires a restart, you computer will automatically restart in 2 days.”<\/p>\n
Or was that two minutes. The message flashed by so quick, I decided to disconnect from my remote, and log in again to see what it said. It flashed by almost as quick, but I was looking and yes it said two days. Made a decision to restart it after business hours today, did my changes on a Hyper-V machine and logged off.<\/p>\n
Less than a minute later my phone lit up… fortunately from the nature of the calls, I had a suspicion what the problem was and tried to get back to the server. A short walk later and I saw that it was applying updates. Hey Microsoft—WHAAAT’S UP!!!<\/p>\n
I wouldn’t have brought this up, but this is the third time this has happened to me in the past couple of months, and I and most of my users are not pleased. Should a server restart when you disconnect or logoff when it is pending restart? Should a pending restart message be displayed a little longer than a blink of an eye? What happened to orderly shutdowns? And don’t you think a server with multiple Hyper-V clients should be required to shutdown in an orderly fashion?<\/p>\n
And one more question…who was the brain surgeon who thought putting a “Metro” view on a server was a good idea?<\/p>\n
If any of my Spicehead friends could please enlighten or guide me on some better practices I would be most grateful! ;~)<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"datePublished":"2014-07-10T14:28:58.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/windows-server-2012-restarts-without-commands/320150/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"paulyounghaus","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/paulyounghaus"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Are you using a WSUS server or have you disabled automatic updates?<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2014-07-10T14:37:56.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/windows-server-2012-restarts-without-commands/320150/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Little-Green-Man","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Little-Green-Man"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"