Which patches are you referring to? I was able to control the reboots with this last round of Patches on 2003 servers. Dirk Blose, MCSE, CCA Lead Technical Analyst (919) 765-4791 dirk.blose@xxxxxxxxxx >>> CMSchneider@xxxxxxxxx 10/25/05 8:43 AM >>> With the changes to the updater*I now am forced to have to reboot my servers as soon as I patch a server, whereas before, I could patch, wait for the weekly reboot and be done. Now I must coordinate downtime of 70+ servers in a 24x7x365 environment. This makes me less than pleased. Anyone have a way around this? Chad