{"id":1428,"date":"2016-02-25T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:34","slug":"no-time-to-wonder-if-updates-are-rebooting-your-server-put-an-email-event-on-a-log-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/no-time-to-wonder-if-updates-are-rebooting-your-server-put-an-email-event-on-a-log-file\/","title":{"rendered":"No time to wonder if updates are rebooting your server? Put an email event on a log file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for windows. One customer would log in (and me several times) and you are immediately assaulted with windows threatening you that you have 5 minutes and the system will reboot. No recourse, no mercy &#8211; for you OR those working on the server. Great &#8211; good customer service right? Well &#8211; it is windows that is causing the issue of course, not me. First, there are 2 GPO&#8217;s (link\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/wsus\/archive\/2013\/10\/08\/enabling-a-more-predictable-windows-update-experience-for-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012-kb-2885694.aspx\">one<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/2885694\"> link two<\/a>) that must be configured to ensure that the use has up to 180 minutes of warning, next to allow the reboot to happen at 3am for pete&#8217;s sake. Next, you should set up a log to emall you when events 6005\/6006 to see when the even log was started and stopped. This is the same as you computer rebooting. Next, look for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventsentry.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/monitoring-windows-updates.html\"> event 491<\/a> so see when patches are downloaded. Another blog article I wrote has a <a href=\"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/enable-screensaver-and-default-domain-via-group-policy-object-gpo\/\">few other handy GPO&#8217;s as well that I suggest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for windows. One customer would log in (and me several times) and you are immediately assaulted with windows threatening you that you have 5 minutes and the system will reboot. No recourse, no mercy &#8211; for you OR those working on the server. Great &#8211; good customer service right? Well &#8211; it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No time to wonder if updates are rebooting your server? 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