MS08-067 not prompting for reboot - 70 percent of clients. Malachii 10/25/2008 1:23:00 AM Hello, We have a rather large WSUS implementation across NA, Latam, Canada. Close to 25,000 clients with many replica nodes. We are AD based with GPO's configuring clients for AU settings and have been rolling for years since SUS 1.0. Current issue: MS08-067 does not prompt about 70 percent of clients for a reboot after a successfull installation. Nothing has changed as far as our GPO configs go, or local pol settings. Clients every month get prompted for a reboot during the normal patch cycle. Maybe my brain is fried from the last 2 days, but the answer has not jumped out at me yet. Example snippet from client log: 2008-10-24 19:17:16:161 1880 108 AU AU received handle event 2008-10-24 19:17:21:771 1880 950 Report Uploading 2 events using cached cookie, reporting URL = http://SERVERNAME/ReportingWebService/ReportingWebService.asmx 2008-10-24 19:17:21:927 1880 950 Report Reporter successfully uploaded 2 events. 2008-10-24 19:17:31:177 1880 108 AU Launched new AU client for directive 'Reboot Pending', session id = 0x0 But yet no actual prompt is shown for the clients..."'Allow Non-Admins to receive update notifications' " is set, (though they are admins). Ideas?

Re: MS08-067 not prompting for reboot - 70 percent of clients. "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <lawrence[ at ]nospam> 10/25/2008 3:27:52 AM "Malachii" <Malachii[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1421C46D-2815-49E5-8208-F0A7B8A490CF[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > MS08-067 does not prompt about 70 percent of clients for a reboot after a > successfull installation. > Ideas? Perhaps . . . the clients don't need to be rebooted? According to KB958664 32-bit systems only have one file replaced: NETAPI32.DLL (64-bit systems also replace WNETAPI32.DLL). If the file is not in use at the time the update is installed, then the file is not locked, and the installer can easily overwrite the file, successfully completing the installation of the update. Only if the file is in use does the installer need to stage the replacement of the file, causing a system restart. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009) MS WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus My Websites: http://www.onsitechsolutions.com; http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin