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Disable restart after update prompt for server 2008 R2

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00:00 Disable Restart After Update Prompt For Server 2008 R2
01:09 Accepted Answer Score 19
02:30 Answer 2 Score 2
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

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From Disable Windows Update restart nag:

To stop this service, open Command Prompt (Start>Run>cmd>Enter) and type the following command sc stop wuauserv. This will not prevent Automatic Updates from starting at the next boot. So don't worry, you'll keep getting Windows updates. Just don't forget to restart eventually.

From disable Automatic Update restart prompts using Windows Computer Policy
(was this the one you mentioned in your post?):

Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / and disable Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations.

You can use a freeware product to Disable Windows Update Restart Alert Message With WindowsUpdateSilencer:

If you want to get rid of Windows Update notification then here is WindowsUpdateSilencer useful tool which runs in the background and will automatically silence all Windows update notifications.

(I have never used this program and can't vouch for it, especially on Server 2008.)



ANSWER 2

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According to here, the correct configuration is to Enable the following option:

No auto-result with logged on users for scheduled automatic update installations

  1. Click Start -> Run

  2. Enter “gpedit.msc”

  3. Go to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update

  4. Double-click on “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installation”

  5. Enable it!

  6. Reboot the computer

As its description clearly meets the goal:

Specifies that to complete a scheduled installation, Automatic Updates will wait for the computer to be restarted by any user who is logged on, instead of causing the computer to restart automatically.

If the status is set to Enabled, Automatic Updates will not restart a computer automatically during a scheduled installation if a user is logged in to the computer. Instead, Automatic Updates will notify the user to restart the computer.

Be aware that the computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect.