Exception in a compliance policy

Question

Hello all,
As part of my operational compliance policy definition, I want to create a policy and deploy it to a set of servers. for ex:
I want to create a policy for a collection of windows servers to disable SMTP service on all of them but create an exception within the policy to identify the 'SMTP server' itself so the mail server can send emails while others shouldn't (perhaps a poor
example to explain my scenario but I hope you understood where I want to go)
But while creating my compliance policy in sccm 2012, I did not find an option to create any kind of exception. I did some research and all I came across was firewall exceptions or something similar but even then, it was not done within the 'compliance settings'
but rather in a GPO policy or other places.
Any help here? thanks

Answer 1

It's not "straight forward", it's by in general design of how ConfigMgr works:
You do things that you want to deploy (applications, baselines..)
You deploy your things to the targets (collections)
There's always the thing you want to do and the target where you want your thing to be done.