what i might do is manually shut down the service then disable the SQL Server service while they do their multiple reboots then once they are done restart and re-enable the service. Since im not sure as to whether the multiple restarts would do any harm but i know not starting SQL Server durring the reboots will prevent any issues that may be possible i would probably go that route.
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