[AccessD] How to configure WUA (was: New SQL Server license scheme ...)

Hi Gustav:

I would like to see a feature accompanying the update process that will
email me when an urgent issue requires user intervention... 

Is there such a product out there or some hidden feature in the MS OS?

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] How to configure WUA (was: New SQL Server license
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Hi Hans

Yes, that is strange. Or does a category "Extremely urgent updates that
overrules setting for later install" for updates exist?

/gustav


>>> hans.andersen at phulse.com 17-11-2011 09:09 >>>
Hej Gustav,

Believe me. I've had a look at Jims server in the past. It was configured to
download but choose when to install them. Strange isn't it?

Best regards,
Hans-Christian Andersen


On 16 Nov 2011, at 23:51, "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Jim et al
> 
> Well well, relax ... don't blame MSFT, blame he/she who has configured for
Important Updates "How Windows can install updates" to:
> 
> "Install updates automatically (recommended)"
> 
> instead of picking the setting appropriate for a managed high-priority
server expected to run 24/7:
> 
> "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them"
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
>>>> accessd at shaw.ca 16-11-2011 23:18 >>>
> Hi John:
> 
> One example, last weekend that particularly annoyed me was that my Server
> 2008 rebooted without asking. It had been set that upgrades were manual
but
> through some MS Update that setting was modified.
> 
> I am sure the server was prompting me with a reboot, in ten minutes type
> request, but I was not there to observe it so the server rebooted. I have
a
> MSSQL running on the box and it of course disconnected from my web server.
> It was not until a client and friend called saying he could not see his
data
> that I knew anything was wrong.
> 
> From my perspective, unless that box is on fire it should not reboot...and
> it had better not install updates without my explicit agreement.  
> 
> Jim



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