Windows 2003 WSUS Clients Hanging at "Windows Is Shutting Down..." After Scheduled Patch Install and Auto-Reboot
I had gone through this topic a number of time but still it looks like it is not going to resolve so easily. Also the topic remains incomplete after going through a set of new threads. I am having a very large network here that has a batch of 30 computers each. now I am using WSUS to run windows update and that is the only way to push updates on allthe system. Rightnow I am using WSUS 2.0 and did not feel to go for upgades. There is a automatic patching policy in GPO that allows to install the patch and reboot the system. After a few while I had noticed that some servers in the network are freezing and there is nothing I can do. I had tried to apply the updates where the system freeze on Windows is shutting down. In this there are many systems which are not working well. What can be the reason.
Re: Windows 2003 WSUS Clients Hanging at "Windows Is Shutting Down..." After Scheduled Patch Install and Auto-Reboot
We've experienced this same issue with our Windows 2003 servers. After scheduled updates from WSUS, several of them would initiate restart and just hang. It would then require someone going to the physical console to move a mouse to allow the server to complete the restart.
After alot of guessing/testing we determined is that it was the Windows logon screensaver that was somehow interfering with the restart. After disabling the logon screensaver on our servers, we have not had this issue again.
Steps to disable the screensaver are on Microsoft's site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185348