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Blocking Minor macOS update?

  • December 7, 2017
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Does anyone know a way to block a minor OS update? We're having issues with a required app causing kernel panics on the latest High Sierra. We have quite a few machines on 10.13.1, and need to prevent them from updating to 10.13.2

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    • Nix4Life
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    • December 7, 2017

    look here

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    • athomson
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    • December 7, 2017

    This is what I am using. 

    /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --ignore "macOS 10.13.2 Update"
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    • Jesus_Alvarez
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    • July 23, 2018

    I know this is an old post, but can this be used with a wild card so that nothing over 10.13.1 can be installed?

    /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --ignore "macOS 10.13.% Update"

    We use Displaylink docks and nothing over 10.13.3 works correctly and we keep having people upgrade above 10.13.3.

    Thanks,

    Jesus

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    • bmarks
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    • July 24, 2018

    You can achieve similar results using a config profile now. A recent JSS update now allows you to defer the visibility of system updates between 7 and 90 days. This requires 10.13.4 however.

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    • Jesus_Alvarez
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    • July 26, 2018

    Thanks for the response Benjamin. We are trying to prevent people from going to 10.13.4 so we wouldn't be able to take advantage of that just yet. I ended up using the previous suggestion of creating a policy and running this:

    softwareupdate --ignore "macOS 10.13.4 Update"

    I then cloned it and made one for 10.13.5 and 10.13.6 just to be safe. Tested it and it is working as it should.

    Jesus

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