Relevance syntax to find PC's pending reboot

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(imported topic written by SteveRinMa)

Hello,

I am new to BigFix, we have just switched over from SCCM 2007, my question is on writing relevance for a Fixlet or a group to target systems that are pending reboot after installing Windows updates, we suppress reboot in the Post actions tab.

We would like to have a Fixlet that when the relevance shows a PC pending reboot it will be rebooted Sunday morning between 2 AM and 6 AM, if it is still turned on and has not been rebooted.

So far I have tried the following

If Exists

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\RebootRequired” then True

else False

This works in the Debugger, but will not populate PC’s in a Fixlet or group. I also tried adding a property, and this returns all PC’s as True, and I know they are not pending reboot.

We do have a relevance training class in 6 months, but cannot wait that long so if anyone has done this or has any suggestions please reply.

Thank you,

Steve

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(imported comment written by Zakkus)

You can probably easily do this by using the “pending restart” inspector.

You can create a task that just has the relevance “pending restart”, and has an action that reboots the machine if relevant. Then just issue an action that only runs on sundays between 2 and 6 (set in the “execution” tab of the Take Action Dialog), and it should do what you want.

-Zak