Exclude PC from stock package
Bill Banks
I have an executive that is having an issue with Zoom where it blows out the client every time the software gets updated. I'm working on the root of the problem, but until I can resolve the real problem, is there a way to keep PDQ from auto updating the Zoom client on that one PC and keep all the other PC's on my network fully updated? There was an old question that had a dead link, so hopefully there is an updated way to do this.
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I have a computer that bricks when we enable Hyper-V. I put that computer in a PDQ Inventory Collection and I tell the package to not deploy to any computers in that collection. Its simple but works and bad to maintain for one off issues like this. Package will fail on that PC due to membership collection. If you want it to not try to deploy, you'd need to create a collection that excludes the exec's PC and deploy to it.
Assuming you have Inventory. If not, you could setup a registry or file exclusion for his PC and that should do the trick as well. Hope that helps.
We run into weird stuff like this as well. Just create a copy of the Zoom Client Collection in PDQ Inventory. It'll keep the PDQ Inventory created variables in the package. Edit the newly copied group filter to exclude the problematic device. Then just point your PDQ Deploy Zoom packages to the new Zoom Client group.