What's the "With Reboot" menu item?
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:58 pm
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
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