Thank you very much Ross, this helped us achieve our use scenario.
The DesktopCentral Support Team "recommendation" reminds me the infamous "you think you want it, but you don't".
Well, if you really just put a warning next to a configuration option, stating it is not recommended that would be fine.
But you should not deliberately take out a configuration option from IT professionals.
Your customers are the ones who should dictate usage scenarios. Not every organization uses DesktopCentral to push out large amounts of patches. Some may just want to deploy configurations or merely have up to date asset info.
Cheers.