Announcing GA of enhanced patching for SQL Server on Azure VM with Azure Update Manager

That's wonderful news TarynPratt. Thank you for bringing this to GA for Azure and Hybrid customers. It's a great addition to Azure Update Manager and I appreciate much that it enables customers to do instance based patching of SQL Servers.

May we expect that the feature is available for SQL on-premises through Arc especially when running on Azure Stack HCI when SQL is covered by SA? 

A common drawback we experienced during the preview is, that there was no way to prevent regular maintenance plans to exclude AUM from patching (critical) SQL updates.

What would be the best way to patch the OS via a maintenance plan without SQL patches. Putting all KBs into the exclusion list every month doesn't seem feasible for customers.

The goal is to use only this AUM extension for an orchestrated SQL patching, and AUM maintenance plans only for OS updates. 

Is this something that has been discussed at your end, or did other customers raised similar feedback?

Would be glad to learn about possible solutions for this scenario, if possible.