remotely detect reboot required

does anybody knows how to write an application to remotely detect if a
server require to be rebooted after automatic updates?

I've found something about "Windows Updates Agent API" but no examples on
how to use it and it's a bit confusing me.

any suggestion?
thanks

"aioe.org" <geco72@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:gspvgi$tm4$1@aioe.org...
> does anybody knows how to write an application to remotely detect if a
> server require to be rebooted after automatic updates?


Download %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\ReportingEvents.log
and look at the last few lines. With PowerShell you could do that
check more precisely.


>
> I've found something about "Windows Updates Agent API" but no examples on
> how to use it and it's a bit confusing me.
>
> any suggestion?
> thanks



This is probably not the best newsgroup to come to looking for
suggestions about administrative automation. ; )


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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