WinGet.exe upgrade --all -Exclude

Question

How to exclude the list of apps [third-party application, MS applications, and MS KBnumbers] while running winget upgrade -all commands. Is there any parameter to exclude any application? It will be appriciated

Answer 1

There is no "-Exclude" option for the current version of WinGet.

You can place a feature request (use the "New Issue" button) here: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues. You'll have to create a GitHub account in order to do so.

You can also create you own JSON file containing only the package Id's you want to update. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/

Answer 2

There is native way to exclude apps:

Putting the "native" cli implementation here for reference;

Run once:

winget pin add --id Microsoft.Teams
winget pin add --id Microsoft.Office 

After running the above, then winget upgrade --all will upgrade everything except Teams and Office

Answer 3

You can do this: winget upgrade app1.id, app2.id, app3.id

You will get the app id from the available updates list after running winget upgrade

Answer 4

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/discussions/124620

Get-WinGetPackage | Where-Object {($.IsUpdateAvailable -eq $true) -and ($.Id -ne 'Microsoft.Teams') -and ($.Id -ne 'Microsoft.Office')} | ForEach-Object { Update-WinGetPackage -Id $.ID }