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rjlucas365
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Oct 21, 2021

Office Hours - WUfB - Device idle and Restart Checks

There is some confusion around what allowing Restart Checks does.  I believe if Restart checks are allowed, then reboots are NOT allowed to occur while: User is not active User is not in a phone c...
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AriaUpdated
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Oct 21, 2021
I'd recommend against configuring this in Intune. To be honest, restart checks is really only for education cart PCs, but even then it can result in poor compliance and behavior. David Guyer please feel free to chime in with more info.
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    rjlucas365
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    Oct 21, 2021
    To be clear, are you saying to ALLOW or to SKIP Restart Checks for non-cart PCs?
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    AriaUpdated
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    Oct 21, 2021
    One Note: By Default -
    40%battery or plugged in, not in presentation mode, etc. are all things we check by default before restarting. We will not automatically restart if the device doesn't meet those normal requirements.
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      rjlucas365
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      Oct 21, 2021
      and when you say "by default" this is with Restart Checks allowed? Would restart checks skipped change this behavior?

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