https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687538#M20199 <P><STRONG>Starting / Stopping of SAS during windows reboot.</STRONG><BR />We have configured SAS to start as windows service.</P><P>When windows is rebooted SAS starts.</P><P>However before stopping the server SAS is manually stopped.</P><P>During patching of the OS, there are multiple reboots and SAS is manually stopped between the reboot.</P><P>My question: Is &nbsp;it necessary to manually stop SAS particularly during reboots while patching.?<BR />will windows not stop SAS systematically?</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:01:13 GMT Sajid01 2020-09-29T15:01:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687538#M20199 <P><STRONG>Starting / Stopping of SAS during windows reboot.</STRONG><BR />We have configured SAS to start as windows service.</P><P>When windows is rebooted SAS starts.</P><P>However before stopping the server SAS is manually stopped.</P><P>During patching of the OS, there are multiple reboots and SAS is manually stopped between the reboot.</P><P>My question: Is &nbsp;it necessary to manually stop SAS particularly during reboots while patching.?<BR />will windows not stop SAS systematically?</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:01:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687538#M20199 Sajid01 2020-09-29T15:01:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687544#M20200 <P>The question as I understand it is, Will Windows automatically stop a Windows service on reboot.&nbsp; The answer to that question is of course Yes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:16:50 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687544#M20200 CurtisMackWSIPP 2020-09-29T15:16:50Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687547#M20201 <P>I've never found it necessary to stop SAS manually for restarts. I'll sometimes apply Windows Updates during the day and simply schedule a reboot in the middle of the night, to avoid downtime when analysts are busy.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:17:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/687547#M20201 Nigel_Pain 2020-09-29T15:17:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/710731#M21197 It depends what SAS products you are running. I prefer to gracefully shutdown all SAS services prior to a Server reboot. I also like to explicitly control the restart process with automation tools. YMMV Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:46:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Starting-Stopping-of-SAS-during-windows-reboot/m-p/710731#M21197 angian 2021-01-12T06:46:05Z