Pushing Patches - Always in "Pending Restart"

(imported topic written by RobertDiRosato)

So I have been pushing Microsoft Critical patches via BigFix to servers and workstation (About 100 endpoints in my test group)

I was hoping to start the whole enterprise next week… but…

My issue is this:

About 3% of my endpoints from the console say “Pending Restart” so I can never get 100%

I have restarted several times… Tested Physical and VM’s with no luck…

I know it has to do with this registry key being present.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager PendingFileRename

Within that key different machines have different data …

I even clear the key and restart with no luck…

If I can’t work around this… It will be a deal breaker… ;(

How can I get around this ???

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated…

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hi Robert,

This KB article should help

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=159