Workstation Maintenance and Power Management
My company is entertaining the thought of requiring everyone to shutdown their computers at night to save money and electricity. I currently have most of my maintenance tasks running in the evening so users will not be disrupted while they are working during the day. All workstations auto-update from my WSUS server and I have a group policy in place to configure each workstation to work with WSUS. I also run a weekly virus scan in the evening. What can I do to allow the users to shut their computers down and still run maintenance in the evening? I know Wake-On-LAN is an option but I am not sure of the best way to configure it to work with WSUS and I have never really worked with wake-on-lan in general to know the best way to set it up.
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It means that the updates are installed at random and will auto shut down the computer. So, that forces the PC to shut down.
You can remove the shutdown, and only allow the Install updates and shutdown for the users. So, when they shutdown, the install of updates is performed..
You can configure this a number of ways to act as you wish it to. The one I avoid is install and shutdown automatically. This is because an employee could be working on something and then all of a sudden the puter shuts down on them. They seem to get a little tweaked when that happens.
You can remove the shutdown, and only allow the Install updates and shutdown for the users. So, when they shutdown, the install of updates is performed..
You can configure this a number of ways to act as you wish it to. The one I avoid is install and shutdown automatically. This is because an employee could be working on something and then all of a sudden the puter shuts down on them. They seem to get a little tweaked when that happens.
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I have not had the opportunity to put any of these things into practice so I will split the points. Thank you for the great suggestions!
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Can I also configure in the GPO to remove the "shutdown without installing updates" option and automatically install updates if the user does not shut down their machine after a certain amount of time? I need to make sure I remove all loopholes that would allow a user to bypass installing new updates.