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My WSUS setup downloads a number of products/categories and approves them for install automatically.

This is intended.

But the last months there has been some "Quality Previews" which I understand is for tests. I am not interested in deploying these in our production setup.

How can I avoid automatically approval of these whithout changing the approval of all the other products/categories?

Regards, Lars.

Thursday, November 17, 2016 6:58 AM

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How can I avoid automatically approval of these whithout changing the approval of all the other products/categories?

WSUS doesn't have this ability as a builtin feature, but here are some suggestions

http://serverfault.com/questions/809645/how-to-automatically-decline-quality-rollup-updates-in-wsus

https://blogs.msmvps.com/bradley/2016/10/14/wsusautoapprove/
Don [doesn't work for MSFT, and they're probably glad about that ;]
- Proposed as answer by Jay Gu Friday, November 18, 2016 8:44 AM
Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:07 AM
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Hi,

But the last months there has been some "Quality Previews" which I understand is for tests. I am not interested in deploying these in our production setup.

How can I avoid automatically approval of these whithout changing the approval of all the other products/categories?

>>>As mentioned above, there is no built-in way to achieve this.

Here is an article below about rollup updates for your reference.

More on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 servicing changes

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/10/07/more-on-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-servicing-changes/

Best Regards,

Jay
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Friday, November 18, 2016 8:44 AM
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Here is an article below about rollup updates for your reference.

More on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 servicing changes

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/10/07/more-on-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-servicing-changes/

Thanks. All though I really don't see the point of doing a preview of an update without security fixes. In an enterprise production environment who will want to have a preview of a functions to come? Great to have the opportunity to get them, but it should be a proactive selection without having the need of making cowboy tricks not to get them.

Regards, Lars.

Saturday, November 19, 2016 10:17 PM
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Hi,

First, Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding and patience.

All though I really don't see the point of doing a preview of an update without security fixes.

>>>As mentioned above, there is no built-in way to achieve this. And you could use script to do it as Don suggested.

Best Regards,

Jay
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:47 AM