Restart Nudge for Macs

[urvashi]

Hi all, 

Reposing this from a conversation in the JumpCloud Slack Lounge. 

"I have a question, but I'm not sure the best place to ask. We want to somehow and gently force our Macs to restart once a week. Our users have a tendency to just close their laptops, but the uptime is causing issues. I'd like to force a restart weekly, but a command doesn't seem completely ideal for this." 

The wonderful @TomBridge and @JoeRogers recommended this tool:  https://github.com/SecondSonConsulting/Renew

A couple more notes from the conversation thread: 

• Deploy the Renew PKG using Software Management or Command to all macbooks
• Create a Mobile Config in Apple Policy section and apply it your device group
• SwiftDialog will also need to be deployed with software management
• SwiftDialog can be used in conjunction with Installomator to notify users
• The imazing Profile Editor has a template for Renew.

Final response from the asker: "Make a profile. Deploy the profile. Deploy Swift Dialog. Deploy Renew. And we should be good to go."

Happy Restarting, folks!

[rlyons]

Is there a way to do this as a "background" admin user and not the active logged in user? We have some multi-user machines with fast user switching, and they will NOT restart without me physically entering an admin login to restart. This is preventing software, security, and application updates since the machines cannot restart unattended.

[urvashi]

Reposting a recommendation from the Slack Lounge from @TomBridge: 

Personally, I'd kill those login sessions, they're likely not getting used.You could script that and run it with Commands.