Delay Reboot
Would like the ability for users to delay reboot or have some control that they can adjust or delay a reboot. That is so if they are in a video meeting or etc it just doesn't reboot
Siltek MDMAdmin
shared this idea
Thanks to you, Atera is better today than it was yesterday! The feature you requested has been implemented and released!
Please check out this kb article with the Windows Updates restart options: https://support.atera.com/hc/en-us/articles/5499183257884-Configuration-policies#Availableconfigurations
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Emiel Hack
commented
The option to reboot if necessary is great with the patch management.
However if a pc needs to be restarted it would be nice if the users is getting a popup which says; please close all applications, your pc will reboot in [TIME X]. Where time X is a countdown form X minutes -
Jason Burris
commented
Being able to schedule a reboot will be helpful, however that's not what this feature request is about. This is asking that pending reboots (could be from a patch installation or could be triggered by IT) give the user a pop-up window where they can delay the reboot. This is most important for when a patch installs and tries to reboot immediately. The user ought to be able to temporarily put off that reboot.
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Dawn Gwinn
commented
I have my reboots set for 1am. For some reason yesterday they went off at 8:30 am, I deactivated them and sent a ticket. Today at 3:30 they rebooted again and the automation profile was active again. I had about 60 users lose work, there is a message that flashes and within 2 seconds the machine is rebooting.
People can lose their jobs over a glitch like this. Especially when it's preventable.
So yeah, I would consider this critical.
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Jason Burris
commented
It would be helpful to be able to set our patch management so that when a reboot is needed the customer gets a prompt on their screen. If they manually reboot then that's great. If they don't, then after 24 hours the computer would force a reboot. This would streamline our ability to manage patching and reboots while also not surprising the end user with unexpected reboots.