Best Practices for setting up Notifications for Patch Management

Products

• Patch Management Solution for Windows

Issue/Introduction

There are various options available for notifying end users about software update installations, installation progress, and restarts. 

Environment

Patch Management 8.x

Resolution

Information on configuring installations and restart notifications and be found in our Tech Docs page, Default Software Update Plug-in Policy Page.

Note that changes were introduced in 8.7.1 that give the option to restart automatically or not if no user is logged in. Prior to 8.7.2, computers will restart if needed automatically if no user is logged in.