Blocking Minor macOS update?

Javy
New Contributor

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
Valued Contributor

athomson
New Contributor III

This is what I am using.

/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --ignore "macOS 10.13.2 Update"

Jesus_Alvarez
New Contributor II

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

bmarks
Contributor II

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.

Jesus_Alvarez
New Contributor II

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