Just as the title suggests, Windows Update pops up notifications to restart the server now or later to all users on a Terminal Server. I ran into this yesterday when I had installed a security update and a few miscellaneous ones as well. I figured that the restart notifications would only be shown on the administrator accounts and not all users on the Terminal Server. That proved to be a bad assumption on my part, but a logical one. Why would regular users need to be notified that the server needed to be rebooted to finish installing updates when they don’t even have the security permissions to do so?
Anyway the Chief Financial Officer e-mailed me wondering what was going on later in the afternoon. She and other users were getting really annoyed by the constant pop up to restart the server ( shoot I would be too!). So in the end I told her to restart the server and that was the end of the problem. Why couldn’t Microsoft restrict these updates notifications and restart pop up’s to only the administrator accounts? Maybe there is a registry setting that I just don’t know about that could do all this for me, but for now I’ll just remember to schedule these updates during off hours.
