Can anyone guide me how to force reboot the machine after 24 hours of patching via WSUS. My environment has WIN XP and Win7 Machines. i would like to implement this by group policy.

Here are the gpo's to handle updates: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720539(v=ws.10).aspx

Hi,

Do you mean auto-restart after scheduled Automatic Update installation? Or you want to just force to restart a computer by GPO? If it is the second case, GPO cannot do it. But you can achieve it by the other options. For instance, by shutdown command.

I guess, you can also do this by setting up a deadline for patches. After the patch installation machine will reboot and you can set the time (24 hrs)  for this.

As far as I know, you can do this when you approve the patches / updates to the computer group. I forgot the option name as I have worked in WSUS 2 years back.

Regards,

Jey.