Force reboot after windows Update on schedule and user experience.

Question

Hello,

I want to use Intune policy to update systems. The policy allows you to configure "Grace period" and "Auto reboot before deadline".

As far as I understand, this parameter will force the system to reboot as soon as the “Grace period” is reached.

1. The question is, what will this look like for end users? Will the system just reboot or will it be prompted to close all programs within 5 minutes? Please post an example if you have one.
2. Another question is, is it possible to somehow select a reboot during non-working hours? This could be done through group policies, but I understand that the policy settings are much simplified and most likely this cannot be done through them.

Thank you.

Answer 1

@Mountain Pond, thanks for posting in the Q&A.

Based on my understanding, when the device has installed the update, it will come to restart pending, before the device has reached the grace period, it will pop up that the device will reboot after the grace period, and when it finally reaches the end of the grace period, it will pop up that the device will reboot in a few minutes.

For rebooting during non-working hours, you can configure automatically install and reboot during maintenance hours and device active time range so that when the device is active during working hours, the device will not reboot, it will automatically reboot during non-active hours.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/windows-update-settings#user-experience-settings

Meanwhile, for the setting "Auto reboot before deadline", if it is set Yes, then the device has installed updates and is outside of active hours, it might attempt an automatic restart before the deadline. If it is set No, devices will delay automatically restarting until both the deadline and grace period have expired, even if applicable updates are already installed and pending a restart.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/windows-update-settings

Hope it will help.

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