Excluding Servers from a fixlet

Usage and Config Patch
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(imported topic written by tazmir91)

Looking for a method on how to exclude a fixlet (security update MS10-xxx) from being installed on a or multiple computers using their hostnames/computernames.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

Create a Computer Group that excludes the computers that you want to exclude and then target that fixlet to the group.

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(imported comment written by mcalvi91)

we have several small narrowly defined groups for specialized devices that are all named the same or have the same hardware (ATM/POS type devices). We have other groups that then include everything in the subnet (Location By Subnet property) AND exclude the previous groups. I think that the nesting or exclusion of nested groups is one of the better features of auto groups.

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(imported comment written by tazmir91)

If I create a Custom copy of a fixlet and hide the actual fixlet, what should I add to its relevance so this custom fixlet will not be relevant to the computer group I created.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by mcalvi91)

you can put in the relevance section that the group membership is not a member of group XXX

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(imported comment written by mcalvi91)

mcalvi

you can put in the relevance section that the group membership is not a member of group XXX

see attached

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(imported comment written by dag91)

This is the relevance I use. Making a group isn’t all that feasible for us so I just put the relevance below in the custom copy where computer1 and computer2 are the computer names that I want to exclude.

if (name of operating system starts with “Win” and ("|Computer1|Computer2|" as lowercase contains “|” & computer name as lowercase as string & “|”) is not true) then platform id of operating system != 3 else false

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(imported comment written by FSINJ)

dag91 - I know this was quite awhile but can you tell me did it work because I want to do this too? Thanks.