I have created a baseline of a few MS patches and pushed it down. I noticed two behaviours:
A few patches install, the status is pending restart and for the rest, the status is waiting. It proceeds only if I restart the machine.
The status of the machine shows up as “Pending Login” and the action summary of the baseline says “Waiting for user to log in”. However, all the patches are in either “Fixed”, “Pending Restart”, “Not Relevant” or “Waiting” status.
If one of the Fixlets has the line “action requires login”, then this will happen… As far as I know, only the “Real Player 11” and some of the MS09-010 Fixlets have this behavior at the moment.
If one of the Fixlets has the line “action requires login”, then this will happen… As far as I know, only the “Real Player 11” and some of the MS09-010 Fixlets have this behavior at the moment.
Nope. No corrupt patches. It is all standard windows patches. Also, the action settings were left at default.
Its just that a few patches install, their status is either pending restart or fixed and the rest are in the status ‘waiting’. No idea whats causing it. I have about 32 patches in the baseline.
I think it is because the patch puts something in the RunOnce key, which is run at login time. As far as I know, this is something we noticed and Microsoft doesn’t directly explain it.