Under Preferences, configure vendors and acquisition settings. These settings will be reflected in the Vendor Settings and Acquisition Jobs.
{Microsoft::Windows*,Microsoft::!Windows 95}
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For new Patch Manager installations, the acquisition and management of patches for the following products are excluded, by default:
Security and non-security patches for Microsoft Office, Windows 95, Windows 98, Window Me, and Microsoft Office products.
Security patches for SuSE specific products *-yast2, *-yast2-*, and *-liby2. The automated management of SuSE OS yast specific products are not supported by Patch Manager.
Note: If you are migrating from a previous version of Patch Manager and did not remove your patch.cfg
before migration, if you wish to exclude all Microsoft Office products or their standalone versions from Patch Manager acquisition and management, append the following text to your product exclusion list:
“,!Access*,!Excel*,!FrontPage 200[023],!FrontPage 9[78],!InfoPath*,!Office*,!OneNote*,!Outlook*,
!PowerPoint*,!Project 200[023],!Project 98,!Publisher*,!Visio*,!Word*,!Works*”
Note the text shown above is all one line and the quotes displayed above are not to be included in the user interface Excluded Product text box.