How to prevent automatic reboot after deployment installation

Autodesk Support

Nov 16, 2023

Products and versions covered

Issue:

Is it possible to prevent the automatic computer reboot after the deployment has been installed?

Solution:

Note: The reboot is scheduled by Windows Installer to maintain the integrity of the components in the OS so it is highly recommended to reboot before launching the software to ensure that there will be no compromise of the component integrity.

Generally, installing the prerequisites for the product before the main installation will resolve the problem.
 

If you are launching the install from another application such as SCCM, then applying the property, REBOOT=ReallySuppress to the command line will sometimes help.
You can modify the setup.ini, adding the REBOOT=ReallySuppress to the EXE_PARAM= section of the INI file for the prerequisites that trigger the reboot.
To determine which prerequisite package causes the reboot, you can verify the contents of the Setup.log which should list the package triggering the reboot.

Example: 
:== AutoCAD 2018
Img\x64\acad\acad.msi TRANSFORMS="Img\x64\acad\acad-ACAD2018.mst" ADSK_EULA_STATUS=#1 ADSK_SOURCE_ROOT="Img\" FILESINUSETEXT="" REBOOT=ReallySuppress ADSK_SETUP_EXE=1 /q

An alternative way could be to use: 
/qn /norestart MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL=Disable
In a command similar to: 
Msiexec.exe /X {…} /qn /norestart MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL=Disable

For ODIS-installers, the REBOOT=ReallySuppress can be placed at the end of the installation string as follows: 
\\test deployemnt\image\Installer.exe" -i deploy --offline_mode --ui_mode basic -o "\\test deployemnt\image\Collection.xml" --installer_version "1.34.0.11" REBOOT=ReallySuppress

See Also:

REBOOT property
 

Products:

All Desktop Products;

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