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Decline Updates

Declining an update makes sure that the update isn’t approved to any WSUS group. You can only decline updates under All updates. Declined updates are shown in All updates → Declined, where you can approve them again.

  1. In the Patch Management tree, go to All updates and select the category or classification that contains the updates you want to decline.

    All updates in the tree view with its Categories and Classification folders

  2. In the content pane, select one or more updates. Right-click them and select Decline.

    The right-click menu with Decline selected

  3. Confirm that you want to decline the selected updates. If necessary, write a change description.

    The confirmation dialog for declining the selected updates

  4. If one or more of the updates is linked to multiple categories, a message tells you that the status also changes under the other categories. Confirm to continue.

    The message about updates linked to multiple categories

  5. The progress dialog shows the status of each update.

    The progress dialog while the selected updates are declined

Section titled “Related tasks”
If you want to… You can…
Automatically approve updates Approval rules
Approve updates Approve updates
Approve from All updates Approve from All updates