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64 Windows updates, when was it last run?
Recently visited a site for hardware maintenance and when I shutdown the server via Windows it performed 64 windows updates before shutting down and all I could do was wait 4 hours for this to complete. OS was Windows 2003 Small Business Server. There was no option to install updates and shutdown on the menu, just shutdown.
1. Is it normal for Win 2003 / SBS to install updates before shutting down even though the option selected was just to shutdown?
2. Should it take 4 hours to apply 64 updates?
3. When approximately were updates last applied bearing in mind that there were 64 of them outstanding?
I have no access to site since the hardware/OS is now repaired so cannot look in the event viewer to answer questions, I do not think it was Win2003 R2, just the original version. Service Pack level unknown.
1. Is it normal for Win 2003 / SBS to install updates before shutting down even though the option selected was just to shutdown?
2. Should it take 4 hours to apply 64 updates?
3. When approximately were updates last applied bearing in mind that there were 64 of them outstanding?
I have no access to site since the hardware/OS is now repaired so cannot look in the event viewer to answer questions, I do not think it was Win2003 R2, just the original version. Service Pack level unknown.
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Will stick to command line shutdown from now on - or yanking the UPS input cord would have done it for me this time.
No wonder it took ages, it didn't have the sense to stop things like MS Exchange first.
No wonder it took ages, it didn't have the sense to stop things like MS Exchange first.
Carefull with "yanking the power". You can do a bit of damage with that. Stick to the command line :)
Olaf
Olaf
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Yank the UPS power, not the server power.
This one was properly wired to a UPS with serial port to shut it down cleanly if mains power fails. Even if they remove the "install updates and shutdown" option and change the default action of the shutdown menu so it installs updates first a UPS initiated shutdown doesn't install updates. I could probably have done that after I saw it was going to apply updates but the software house couldn't verify.
This one was properly wired to a UPS with serial port to shut it down cleanly if mains power fails. Even if they remove the "install updates and shutdown" option and change the default action of the shutdown menu so it installs updates first a UPS initiated shutdown doesn't install updates. I could probably have done that after I saw it was going to apply updates but the software house couldn't verify.
Yes thats a very smart and good option.
Olaf
Olaf
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1. "yes - it does - The option to shutdown only without installing updates" isn't a complete sentence. Could that be "1. yes - it does - The option to shutdown only without installing updates [was introduced later]"?
2, it has 4GB, 32bit OS so about 3.25GB seen by Windows, rest reserved for drivers.