Exclude a Collection from having mandatory windows update
I am new to SCCM 2007 for the past few months now. I have a lab that users don't want the updates to be mandatory install and force to reboot. These folks typically do test systems that run tests that could run up to 3 weeks and can't afford to stop in the middle of the test. If they do that mean they will have to start the test all over again. I have search for an answers for past few days. Can someone help by show me how to exclude a collection from having mandatory windows update being pushed to a set of systems in a collection? Instead of force install but have the windows update notification show up and those updates are available as a list so the end user can manually select to install.
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Posted by:
clam5917
10 years ago
Hi Dedenker,
Thanks for your respond and I apologize for the late respond (was on vacation). This help a lot thanks for your knowledge. :-)
Posted by:
dedenker
10 years ago
You can exclude a collection.
So you make a collection of the machine/users you need to exclude.
Then the collection that is used to deploy the updates, must will skip all objects that are in the excluding collection.
Make: [All System] minus [Test Systems] = system that are allowed to be updated.
Details I got from this page
But best would be to create a development site, so excluding them is easy, make it for sure by not coping the files to there distribution point.
So you make a collection of the machine/users you need to exclude.
Then the collection that is used to deploy the updates, must will skip all objects that are in the excluding collection.
Make: [All System] minus [Test Systems] = system that are allowed to be updated.
Details I got from this page
But best would be to create a development site, so excluding them is easy, make it for sure by not coping the files to there distribution point.