Security Compliance

Posting multiple exclusive updates in Patch Manager to the managed clients

This article addresses a customer concern about using Patch Manager to post multiple exclusive updates to the client computers.

First published date

6/11/2019 8:46 PM

Last published date

6/11/2019 8:46 PM

Overview

This is a possible response that can be given to a customer when they ask how to force multiple exclusive updates to be installed on client computers at the same time.

Product section

Patch Manager

Resolution

According to Microsoft exclusive updates are defined as: "Exclusive Handling Required: Specifies whether the software update must be installed independent of other updates."

This question was also answered in a Technet article response from Lawrence Garvin.

SolarWinds mentions the exclusive updates in our article regarding exclusive update failures as well: Patch Manager Update Management task fails due to an exclusive update

Below is a screenshot of an exclusive update from our test lab for review that comes up when viewing these updates within the WSUS and shows: "Must be installed exclusively:" and is tagged with "Yes"

Patch Manager is unable to bypass this because these settings are specifically related to Microsoft Update packages which contain proprietary rule sets.

Patch Manager does not and cannot legally modify Microsoft Packages.

Though we may agree that it would be great to be able to avoid these updates being installed individually, we are not able to modify them to accomplish this.

This is a question that you should pose to Microsoft.

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Disclaimer: Please note, any content posted herein is provided as a suggestion or recommendation to you for your internal use. This is not part of the SolarWinds software or documentation that you purchased from SolarWinds, and the information set forth herein may come from third parties. Your organization should internally review and assess to what extent, if any, such custom scripts or recommendations will be incorporated into your environment. You elect to use third-party content at your own risk, and you will be solely responsible for the incorporation of the same if any.