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  • 1.  Restart a computer during a policy

    Posted Apr 29, 2015 02:21 PM

    We are trying to deploy IE11

    Due to not using the Patch Management side of Alitiris yet we are trying to deploy using either a Task or Policy, as of right now we are usinf a Task.

    I would like to switch to a Policy but I'm having big issue trying to restart a computer at the start of the poilicy and not triggering a fail of some kind. I could use the "restart on suscess" but as this is a multi step process and I would like a couple of restarts these can misfire.

    Also if the install fails I don't want the policy to just keep restarting the policy so a restart in the vbscript would be the best option for me.

    In the past when I have tried this I have either had

    The job that triggers the restart fails or the job afterwards fails.

    The reason for moving to a policy is the size of the deployment and number of smaller branch computers, I need to locally prestage the files which a Policy works great at.

    this is kind of what I would like the policy to execute like

     

    Restart computer

    Install preupdates

    Restart computer

    Install Internet Explorer

    Restart computer

    Install Post updates

    Restart computer

     

     

    Any ideas how to achive this



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