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Hi @Olioty

Thank you for connecting with the WithSecure Community

If you need to block a particular update, such as KB5063878, you can do this by creating an exclusion rule in the Software Updater settings of your profile in the WithSecure Elements Security Center.

How to block a Microsoft update by Bulletin ID:

1. Log in to WithSecure Elements Security Center.
2. In the sidebar, go to Security Configurations → Profiles.
3. Select the profile you want to edit (note: profiles can only be modified at the level they were created).
4. In the profile settings, open Software Updater.
5. Find Exclude software from automatic installation and click Add rule.
6. In the Rule column, choose Bulletin ID equals to.
7. Enter the Microsoft update ID (e.g., KB5063878) in the value field.
8. Click Save and Publish to apply the changes.

Reference: How to exclude specific software updates from Software Updater in WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection? - WithSecure Community

What happens next?

• When a managed device checks for missing updates, it will skip any updates that match your exclusion (such as KB5063878).
• The device will report that the update wasn’t installed due to administrator exclusion.
• The excluded update may still appear in the Software Updates tab in the console until devices report back their installation status.

This ensures that the specified update will not be automatically installed on devices linked to that profile.

Hope this helps make managing your updates a bit easier!

Hello,

I would to block an update from Microsoft with ID KB5063878 in Patch Management, how can i do this, Can you tell me how can i do this please
i just skip install auto :

regards

@Davidb, @EKD - I hope the issue has now been resolved. If not, this will help:

https://community.withsecure.com/en/kb/articles/31112-the-save-and-publish-button-in-the-elements-endpoint-protection-portal-is-grayed-out-for-firewall-hence-unable-to-publish-the-profile

Upon recommendation of @WS_Ekku (one of our super smart Senior Technical Support Engineers):

"If the user can’t save a profile after clicking the Create a profile button, the issue might be with the default profile.

When the Create a profile button is used, the system relies on the profile set as default under Security Configurations > Profiles > Profile assignment rules.
If that default profile contains an error, the same error will affect the new profile being created.

We switched to the new profile editor a little over a month ago, and this change has caused some issues with profiles that were already created before the update.

To work around this, I recommend cloning one of the WithSecure default profiles and trying to save that instead.
If the user is able to modify and save the cloned profile successfully, that means the issue is not related to user rights—it's likely due to a problem in the original default profile."

Update:
The issue has been resolved on our side.

For information, I reached out to a WithSecure contact in France at the end of the day to help escalate this blocking issue. Thanks to that, the support team was able to investigate and restore the expected behavior.

Thanks to everyone who shared the same problem that helped confirm it wasn’t a local misconfiguration.

David

Dear support team,

same problem here. Since the profiles GUI update it is not possible to save the profiles anymore.

Even if I change profile settings, the save button stays gray.

I can only reject the changes.

Please fix this.

What's new in week 27

Dear community,

We're pleased to announce the release of the new Windows Computers and Servers profile editors.

This release brings the following changes:

• UI redesign for profile editors, compare profiles, save and publish to multiple profiles
  • Help section is now on the right
  • End user rights section added to control the settings on the client UI
  • Some table layout changes 

• New: the new profile editor also includes the capability to create custom IOC (Indicators of compromise) rules

Best regards,
Elements Security Center Team