We have patching set to be done every tuesday night at 10pm. Occasionally users wuch as our 3d artists complain that a render they were doing overnight was interrupted beause of a patch reboot. We are using agents on the machines.
What is the best way to handle a situation like this? Is there a way for them to defer a patch process? For some people I have said to unplug their network cable because then it won't be able to download the patches but the 3d guys need the networ because they render on mulitple pcs that have to communicate.
A user can initiate the scans via the agent interface it seems If I tell them that before they leave on tuesday afternoon, they should click on 'update patch definitions' and then run the scans manually we have defined, the only potential case would be if a patch came out between when they leave and 10pm that night that would cause a reboot which I hope would be rare.
If you have any suggestions i'd appreciate it