lawrence:
thanks for this really (and I mean it) comprehensive answer!
still i have the problem that in one of my client companys all users have
laptops (taking them home after hours etc... but surely not leaving them
connected and running 24/7, others being connected to data aquisition devices
that produce data at random intervals) and for bandwidth considerations we
were doomed to schedule the update at 12:00 noon (hoping that everybody
enjoyed her lunch break at that time). ok, they did, but of course their
moods decreased considerably when coming back to their desks finding their
work gone... what i just did not know until lately (and what triggered my
initial posting) is the difference between admin and user behaviour when it
comes to auto-restart. ok. lession learned the hard way.
one last thing:
you wrote:
- allowing a 'restart later' sceneario, with a recurring popup to reboot
(configurable up to 24 hours)
is this true for plain users as well? if yes, where can i set this up? is it
the allow non-admins... policy? it would be all i was dreaming about!