deploying Internet Explorer Patches

[esherm22]

I push out Internet Explorer patches via SMS and I am wondering if there is a way to not have the "Restart Now, Y/N dialogue box appear or have it be canceled. I once heard something about using a installer wrapper and in a script have it click the cancel button itself.

The problem is this: If a person chooses to restart now and they do that before the application sends a success response to the SMS server, next time the user logs in it starts the update again. SMS apparently thinks it failed the previous time or never ran. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Erik Sherman

 

[RobSchultz]

Are you using SMS Installer to repackage and apply the patches? If so then you can simply Set Variable RESTART where the value is blank. This will keep SMS installer from initiating a restart. If you are pushing out an IE exe patch then there may be a suppress reboot command within the parameters of the exe. Do a /? for a list.
Rob
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