Important Software Update Notifications

Critical updates will show up with an exclamation point in the Managed Software Center GUI. When highlighting the application in the list, the description is appended with more detail about the update install.

Starting at 72 hours before the update deadline, when Later is clicked in the Managed Software Center update window, a message will be presented warning the user of the impending update install. The Managed Software Center GUI will still only display daily.

Starting at 240 minutes (4 hours) before the update deadline, the Managed Software Center GUI will be displayed with a more intrusive warning notification. This notification will be displayed at 240, 180, 120, 90, 60, 45, 30, 15, 10, and 5 minutes. A final notification will also be displayed roughly 1 minute before force logout/restart.

If a machine is powered off or asleep while a force install is due to take place, it will start at 60 minutes worth of notifications. If the machine then is put asleep until that new 60 minute counter has been started, the machine will perform the force install within minutes of waking up.