Check Pending Reboot Status Using Powershell - The Sysadmin Channel

How to test the PowerShell pending reboot module

Check Pending Reboot Status Using Powershell - The Sysadmin Channel. I have looked in event viewer for a system log. I'm looking into it, but how would i run that module, and if the $pendingreboot value is true, initiate a reboot.

Prior to reading today’s post, you should read determine pending reboot status—powershell style! Manually enter in a deploymentid. Poshpaig (powershell gui) does exactly that, can audit updates, install them, reboot and then sweep for pending reboot. However for me, i love automating things and using powershell everywhere i can, not to mention this would be great for the community to use as well. Using the existing modue is the easy way. Is where patches installed through automatic updates register the need to reboot. However, i am trying to run this query from powershell. You need to check a bit about powershell basics. You can check if windows has a pending reboot with the powershell pending reboot module, created by brian wilhite, a microsoft premier field engineer. There are a couple of places to check.

Poshpaig (powershell gui) does exactly that, can audit updates, install them, reboot and then sweep for pending reboot. Furthermore, to be as accurate as possible, i wanted to validate my research by whatever means necessary. I have looked in event viewer for a system log. By using a powershell script, you can query one or all computers in our domain or manually provide the server names to see if they are pending a reboot. Here is the query as i run from the sccm console select sms_r_system.resourceid,sms_r_system. While i don't have any experience with this particular script, another option is the pendingreboot module available on the powershell gallery and github I would like to do this from within my script Even windows admin centre does not seem to know the server has a reboot pending. For this we have created a series of reports to help you get this information. If we need some customization, we could use the script below. If the key exists then a reboot is pending.