[dba-Tech] Windows Event Log help

Hi John:

You seem to have a problem with your updates.

I (try to) never have automatic updates...they are just too dangerous. The last thing needed is a client's site crashing during a work day. That said, do you have a the full event log or just the dump file?  

Windows does have events that will over-ride any settings. This happens when an update has been installed and then the immediate reboot cycle has been postponed.

The Home edition of Window7 is just such a beast. At one point it will decide, regardless of the settings that some process must be handled...it first prompts how long before boot cycle starts, which can be up to four hours, but if no one takes action within a five minute window, it start a shutdown and reboot cycle of about two minutes. Your description does sound like that.

Jim
  
----- Original Message -----
From: "John R Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net>
To: "DBA-Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 1:02:18 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Event Log help

Do any of you fine people know how to filter the event log for what PROGRAM
caused a reboot? 

I know Event IDs 6005 and 6006 will indicate a power down event but that
information isn't very helpful by itself in this instance.

I had an entire office of workstations reboot once during the day (at
various times). They all got a 2 minute warning that the computer was going
to reboot, save your work, etc. which sounds like my script. Except my
script happens on Tuesday nights not Thursday during work hours.

It appears that Java was updated but I do not allow for automatic updates,
so, I'm trying to track this down.

TIA
John B

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