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Blocking clients from receiving updates - 12/1/2008 12:19:20 PM

darklord12

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If I want to block a few clients within a collection from getting an window update patch being advertised to the collection, can I just right click on those clients and choose block from the the pop-up menu or is there a better way to do it? Thanks

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RE: Blocking clients from receiving updates - 12/1/2008 2:03:26 PM

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Block has nothing to do with any specific advertisements or deployments. It blocks the client from communicating with the site entirely.

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RE: Blocking clients from receiving updates - 12/1/2008 2:16:30 PM

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So is it possible to block a windows update to a PC because there are some computers in my organization that I would like to block them from receiving Windows SP3 update.

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RE: Blocking clients from receiving updates - 12/1/2008 3:45:34 PM

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Personally, I'd make a new collection, and explicitly exclude those computers from the collection query. Target the deployment of the SP3 update to the new collection.

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RE: Blocking clients from receiving updates - 12/1/2008 4:09:14 PM

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There is no way to exclude systems from an advertisement or deployment. By design, targetting in based on an entire collection. If you need a different (sub-)set of systems grouped together to target an advertisement or deployment, then the designed method is to create a new collection - just like like Sherry said above.

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