I'd like to leave Windows Automatic Updates enabled but block a specific patch from being installed that is causing us problems.
Is this possible? Anyone know how to do that?
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I'd like to leave Windows Automatic Updates enabled but block a specific patch from being installed that is causing us problems.
Is this possible? Anyone know how to do that?
Best Answer
In a larger network you will want to use WSUS as DanBig pointed out. However, if you owant to block an individual hot fix you can do so with the hot fix ID using this script:
If the update is not linked to an KB article then you would need to find the update ID using this script:
And block it using this script:
You can do all of the above in Windows PowerShell as well. I created the scripts in VBScript originally because I wanted to interact with the Windows Update Agent before PoSH was installed. The Windows Update API is documented on MSDN.