You mean azure hci?

Anything but Hyper-V.

It’s going to be Nutanix.

Oh, like much of my gaming library

Shelfware meaning something bought but never used, apparently.

Broadcom's management trying to spin lack of implementations as an opportunity when really it be more like:

I'm going to assume you're looking for a solution in a personal context, not organizational so I won't suggest local group policy.

Instead, I'd recommend removing the msstore source from "Winget". The Microsoft Store uses this source to push updated for installed third party applications. It may not solve the issue entirely, but I find that as Microsoft expands the use of winget as a package manager for Windows (especially Windows 11), the store itself seems to use it for update provisioning.

Even because OP is a paying customer. We can find workarounds, but only they can resolve the issue.

It doesn't matter where you installed it from, it will behave as a store app for some reason. What if you disable all app updates:

This won't affect windows security updates, only updates for apps like notepad. You can still update them manually ocasionally.

Other hacky option I'm thinking of: the store reads the version number of the app from somewhere, I guess somewhere from the registry. Try to find the registry value and change that number to something very big. Then the store will think your version is newer and it won't try to overwrite it. Be careful with the registry.

I wonder if there's a way you can blacklist their certificate? I'm not sure if that'll override the CA trust but it might subvert the updating process

I would complain to the developer. They're the ones managing this process.

Corrected my original post. I've also updated it to reflect that larger context as well as the content in the "..." menu option.

Selecting the "Cancel Download" within the "..." menu only stops the download for that instance. When the Store rechecks for updates, this will pop back up. There doesn't seem to be a way to tell the Store to ignore updates for that product.

If there's isn't a way to disable specific updates, then I'm not sure what I would want to do as I also have PowerToys installed. That also get updated via this context and I like that streamline so I'd prefer not to turn off ALL 3rd party updates if you even can.

Correct. I had mistakenly stated Windows Update and I meant the updates via the Microsoft Store. I've updated my post to correct that mistake and added some clarifications.

It would be in the Downloads section of the Microsoft Store.

Where do you see this dialog? Is it in the settings app? In the settings where? Can you share a full, bigger screenshot? What are the options in the ... button in the end?

Never seen a program which updates like this, that's why a bit more context would help.

No, I used CSP's installer not via the MS Store.

Now that I look at it I'm not sure.

Is this a windows store app by chance?

So I couldn't find anything for 3rd Party Apps. I found GPO settings for disabling Automatic Updates which doesn't apply in this situation because I already have it disabled. Where are the GPO settings for 3rd Party?

There's gpo settings to stop windows update from updating 3rd party apps. If you want to have something check anyway, I tend to use UnigetUI or just plain winget.

"Cloud Software Group (CSG) formed after the 2022 merger of Citrix and Tibco. The company’s CEO is Tom Krause, a former CFO of Broadcom where he helped to devise the strategy that saw the company create an enterprise software business by acquiring Computer Associates, Symantec, and VMware. Krause took a break from CSG earlier this year to work with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and serve as Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury."

Corporate never ceases to amazing me

As a lowly user, I appreciate these timely simulated phishing attempts, and do not understand the popular disgust. I know there were often articles in 2020 about users being upset that their employer would dare to issue simulated COVID relief phishing attempts and the like. But that was likely the biggest phishing threat at the time, and the security team needed to make sure that users were prepared and that the scam was in their mind in case a real one slipped through.

The workarounds are interesting: link

Both workarounds would appear to do stuff that retriggers HAL detection. So something about the config must get broken, and only HAL redetection is needed to bring the VMs back to life. Now I'm really curious what the underlying bug/problem is.

I couldn't imagine trying to do this with an enterprise array lol. ZFS is great for SOHO's, but it's the stuff of nightmares for the enterprise.

Good write up though.

Meh, I worked today and also didn't get acknowledged. I think you had a better deal.