Stop Services Before Patching

Hello,
I had a question come up yesterday regarding a few servers in my environment related to patch deployments from SCCM 2012. Is it possible to deploy a Software Update Group that will stop certain services before patches are applied - then, after the reboot,
start those services up in a specific order?
There are at lease two seperate high-profile production applications where I have to suppress the reboots and schedule reboot times for those systems so the system owners can start the services in a specific order. It would be a real time saver to automate
this type of situation.
TIA

For scenarios like this where you need to control multiple steps, many organizations use Orchestrator to automate the process.  I prefer this approach because it allows the most flexibility for handling success/failure scenarios.
You can also try to use a Task Sequence for this.
I hope that helps,
Nash
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