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Aloha,<br />
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I am being asked to start shutting down/powering on my Windows servers after applying patches as opposed to rebooting. Is this worth the extra time and effort involved - not to mention losing the ability to automate the process at some point.? <br />
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Mahalo,<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bill
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Aloha,

I am being asked to start shutting down/powering on my Windows servers after applying patches as opposed to rebooting. Is this worth the extra time and effort involved - not to mention losing the ability to automate the process at some point.? 

Mahalo,
            Bill

Reboot or power down after Windows patching

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).