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I'm rather new with Windows / Windows server administration. I heard that rebooting Windows servers everyweek is required to keep it functioning well. So here, we reboot every Virtual Machine running Windows everyday at a specified time, automatically.

Coming from a Unix background, I find that rather surprising. But since I don't know much about Windows (actually, I know absolutely nothing about managing Windows Servers) , I was wondering, is there really a use for that?

Thank you,

Jean-François Rioux
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The only reason rebooting a server would make any sense is if it had a major memory leak that could not be resolved... or similar such issues.

If the server is otherwise fine, it doesn't need a reboot, and it doesn't increase the "health" of the server at all.

It's a bit like switching your car off and back on at every set of red lights. All you'd be doing is stopping the OS, and bringing it back up, for no reason.

Vasili Syrakis
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