Delay Windows Update pending reboot with toast notification

Delay Windows Update pending reboot with toast notification

Who does not know the situation when you come back from vacation and the computer wants to reboot after an update installation. However, it is extremely important from a security point of view that the system is always up to date. How about a solution that updates are always installed directly, but gives the user a little more time to read emails and reboot the device only when it fits them. Another example is when a measurement or other process is running on the computer for several hours or days. Also here it would be really bad if a reboot interrupts this measurement. In this blog I show how you can delay the reboot after an update installation but still remind the user of the reboot and give him the chance to do it when it suits him.

Delay Windows Update pending reboot with toast notification
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Log Toast Notification Responses in Azure Log Analytics

Log Toast Notification Responses in Azure Log Analytics

It is useful after triggering a remediation action or for simply getting feedback from the user/customer to have a kind of survey. Contacting them by mail usually results in very poor response rates. It is much better to contact them directly via a popup. A similar approach can also be useful for user-facing notifications, for example when configuring Windows Update reboot notifications. How you can implement this with the help of a Remediation script and write the response in a Log Analytics workspace I will explain in this blog post.

Toast notification response sent to Log Analytics workspace
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