Ability to Exclude Certain Users/Machines from Specific Global Maintenance Tasks

[narducci]

I’d like to be able to exclude users from certain global maintenance tasks that run weekly.

For example, we have a power plan setting that is set to deploy weekly to all machines, but a handful of computers MUST have different power plan settings, all in different organizations, for a number of reasons.

It would be nice to have the option to just exclude a user or computer from that specific task with a note stating why, then have it be visible in a separate column ‘exclusions’ when you click on the machine.

[MechaGodzilla]

This process seems to work for being able to filter deployments by using Tags and a Filtering Script:

Maintenance Target Scope "Exclude" filter

When creating maintenance schedules, the option to exclude some devices based on a tag or another Azure Group (if Target Type was an Azure Group). We frequently want to schedule a maintenance for “all active employees” but then some users might need to be excluded. This means we either have to make a static Azure Group, or create a custom filter script - which is a bit of a bother. Being able to exclude certain devices when there are “exceptions” would be preferable over having to create and m…

I have successfully used it to deploy different power policies on managed computers within a tenant.