What's the "With Reboot" menu item?

[Cubert]

What's the "With Reboot" menu item?

Some people get confused here and think that this means a reboot is forced after update. Nope, far from it... What this means is we will not pass along with the execute command the "/norestart" switch.

Example:
The command with no reboot
Update WUA to (Latest) = msiexec c:\temp\kb123456789.msi /quiet /norestart

The cmd to allow reboot
Update WUA to (Latest) with reboot = msiexec c:\temp\kb123456789.msi /quiet

If the installer does not force a reboot the no reboot will happen even though you selected "with reboot". Not all updates forced windows to reboot, many may just raise a pending reboot flag. When we use the /norestart switch we are forcing the system to skip any forced reboots. The reboot must be being forced by the update installer package.. Windows 7 SP1 is a primary update that would force a reboot but a simple security roll-up may not.

Hope this helps.
Shannon

[BlairMunro]

Thanks Shannon,

Do you know if any of the recent WUA updates have forced a reboot? Thanks!