How to azure esu delete pending updates?

Question

How can I hide or delete the updates of each VM that I do not consider suitable for the VM itself? The updates are among the pending updates.

Answer 1

Hi @Piergiorgio Carnevali ,
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In Azure Update Manager, while you cannot remove updates from the list of pending updates, you can control which updates are applied to your virtual machines (VMs) by excluding specific updates during the deployment process. Here's how you can manage this:

1. Schedule an Update Deployment:
   • Navigate to the Azure portal and select the VM or group of VMs you wish to manage.
   • Go to the "Update Management" or "Update Manager" section.
   • Initiate a new update deployment by selecting "Schedule update deployment" or a similar option.
2. Exclude Specific Updates:
   • Within the deployment settings, locate the section for including or excluding updates.
   • In the "Exclude" field, enter the Knowledge Base (KB) numbers of the updates you wish to exclude, omitting the 'KB' prefix. For example, to exclude update KB5017593, you would enter '5017593'.
   • This ensures that during the deployment, the specified updates will not be installed on the VM.
   Refer below Screenshots:

Refer Below MS Document:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/update-manager/scheduled-patching?tabs=schedule-updates-single-machine%2Cschedule-updates-scale-overview%2Cwindows-maintenance#change-update-selection-criteria

Please note that while you can exclude specific updates from being installed, they will still appear in the list of pending updates during assessments. Currently, Azure Update Manager does not provide a feature to hide or permanently remove specific updates from the pending list.

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