Windows Server Restarts
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Server 2003 must be much better than Windows XP, and every other version of windows I have uesd because everytime I run windows update on my desktop pc it requires several reboots and this is at least once a month. John
Windows Server 2003 is designed to be down as little as possible, something which isn't necessary with a desktop OS. That said, I used to leave Windows XP running for 4-5 weeks between core OS updates needing a reboot (and WU is always set to download and prompt me to install when ready), but I don't do that anymore because it is a horrible waste of electricity for my needs. My development machine was restarted a couple of times a week, but that was due to me locking it up writing services, etc, not WU. Always read the notes about each update before you download it. If it is a fix for IIS, chances are if you stop the IIS service before installing the fix then you can just start it back up again afterwards and not need to rebot your server. Otherwise the WU client might want you to reboot.
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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Windows Server 2003 is designed to be down as little as possible, something which isn't necessary with a desktop OS. That said, I used to leave Windows XP running for 4-5 weeks between core OS updates needing a reboot (and WU is always set to download and prompt me to install when ready), but I don't do that anymore because it is a horrible waste of electricity for my needs. My development machine was restarted a couple of times a week, but that was due to me locking it up writing services, etc, not WU. Always read the notes about each update before you download it. If it is a fix for IIS, chances are if you stop the IIS service before installing the fix then you can just start it back up again afterwards and not need to rebot your server. Otherwise the WU client might want you to reboot.
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
Thanks for the info. Back in the day when I was the windows network admin for the department we had 4 win 2k active directory servers and the biggest problem with keeping up with updates was that there was rarely a time that no one was logged in so updates were put off to about once every two months and this got us into trouble as we were hit with slammer, welcha and (I forgot the name of the other worm) but all wreaked havoc on our active directory network. John