OpsMgr 2012 - Alerting question/discussion

Question

Good day all.
I am trying to get community feedback regarding this issue.
I will state right off the bat that I WISH I COULD DO DYNAMIC EXCLUSIONS INSIDE GROUPS!!!! There, I said it :)  I can exclude individual servers, but I cannot exclude dynamically the same way I can include
dynamically.
 (my network is much much larger than this but it works for the description) 
Here is a scenario. I have a Production Network with 10 servers on it.  They are all windows based machines.  5 of them are QA servers which access the live data but are used for other things.  I want to email alert for the Windows servers
but NOT for the QA servers.
Ideally I would like to create 2 groups.  One group would be dynamically populated and contain "Windows Servers" (which would include all 10 systems).
The second group would be dynamically populated and contain only the 5 QA systems.
Then I would take that second group, and place it in the Excluded Members list of the Windows Servers group.  Upon which time I would setup an e-mail alert for Windows Computers and never again worry about another issue being emailed out which is related
to the QA servers.
Unfortunately that's not the case (although, if you have a way I can do this, I'd be grateful).
Thanks for any suggestions you have in advance.
Zach

Answer 1

Hi,
try this:
<Expression>
      <Or>
         <Expression>
             <NotContained>
                <MonitoringClass>$MPElement[Name="UIName.A.Group"]$</MonitoringClass>
             </NotContained>
         </Expression>
         <Expression>
             <NotContained>
                <MonitoringClass>$MPElement[Name="UIName.B.Group"]$</MonitoringClass>
             </NotContained>
         </Expression>
      </Or>
</Expression>
Regards,
Ivan