Azure Automation
An Azure service that is used to automate, configure, and install updates across hybrid environments.
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customized VM patching through AZure update management
We have a process to create vm image , will the update management can patch VM created from customized image. How will it identify what is the OS flavor because json file from image doesnt give the os profile with ubuntu/RHEL name . This is request for…
asked 2023-01-23T10:59:39.88+00:00
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Azuretech
90
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commented 2023-02-01T06:07:48.81+00:00
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AnuragSingh-MSFT
21,236
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Exclude KBID windows update automatic within month
Hello Team, My Azure VM has missing windows updates which are published 1 month ago by Microsoft. These updates are not shown inside the VM (Check for Updates---> Your machine is uptodate) . I applied the below monitor rule on the Azure…
asked 2022-10-21T03:50:13.887+00:00
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Rahul
276
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commented 2023-01-29T13:14:09.3433333+00:00
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mohammad alizadeh
0
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Disable Security and Critical Updates in UMC when Maintenance Configurations are assigned to VM
Hello, I have a question regarding the Maintenance Configurations in the UMC. To assign VMs to a Maintenance Configuration, the VM requires the following property "osProfile.windowsConfiguration.patchSettings.patchMode":…
asked 2023-01-26T10:50:08.49+00:00
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Moritz von Witzleben
5
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commented 2023-01-29T03:20:50.8266667+00:00
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Monalla-MSFT
12,771
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Prevent auto-reboot of Azure VM after updates
Hello, I have a critical server running in Azure VM that I want to manually restart if required for Windows updates. I did some research and found "Update Management Center" that I thought I can use for that purpose. So I've tried to…
asked 2022-12-19T12:19:57.03+00:00
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michal
191
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answered 2022-12-19T12:43:10.46+00:00
Alistair Ross
7,106
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Automation & Control - Enabling
In the Azure Portal , search bar when i type Automation & Control , i dont see anything . How to enable it. Anyone who has used it , please advise. i am basically trying to automate Azure Update Manager using this option.
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How to export to csv file, machines list from Azure Update Management
Hi, We have Azure Update Management enabled and working under Automation Accounts. I have 400+ Machines added. I want to compare Excel file will "All the machines" that we actually have in the company. My goal is to compare 2 list…
asked 2022-09-12T20:34:29.48+00:00
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Vlad Dodin
21
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answered 2022-11-18T15:02:07.397+00:00
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Vlad Dodin
21
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asked 2022-11-08T06:23:01.53+00:00
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Somesh Hiremath
1
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answered 2022-11-09T04:27:27.42+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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Windows Critical update vs Windows Security Upate - update management center Azure
Hello Team, I hope you guys are doing well, I'm working on a patching Infrastructure on azure using update management center, I want to know what are the windows Critical updates ? and if it is a must to deploy on my Azure Prod VMs along…
asked 2022-11-07T08:42:06.207+00:00
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Mohamed jihad bayali
1,131
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commented 2022-11-08T10:33:28.76+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,131
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Patching windows VM clients (Win 10 VMs) and Debian Linux vms
Hello Team, I hope you're doing fine, I'm starting working with update management centrer to patch my vms. The solution is working fine for Windows server vms, and for Ubuntu/redhad/centos distributions but isn't supported for windows client…
asked 2022-11-01T16:31:50.457+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,131
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commented 2022-11-07T08:35:04.263+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,131
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Azure CLI to move Azure Arc Guest to Maintenance group
We recently started onboarding Azure Arc Guest servers from AWS via a Service Principal. That all works as expected but when we try to move them into maintenance groups inside of the Update Management Center (Preview), we get an error back: …
asked 2022-10-18T15:24:58.19+00:00
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Rick Elder
41
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commented 2022-11-05T10:47:34.13+00:00
tbgangav-MSFT
10,416
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1 answer
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Update management Center Limitations
Hello Team, I'm freshly working with update management center( Preview) to patch my workload (Linux,win10,win2016,and win2019 VMs). I'm starting experiencing some issues during the conifguration part. 1) for win10 VMs, i see that their OS isn't supported…
asked 2022-10-31T16:03:53.35+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,131
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commented 2022-11-01T18:06:58.323+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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Windows Updates Delivery Solutions
Hoping for some guidance here. I am looking for couple of best alternatives for managing patching on Windows Servers and Linux, but primarily Windows. I have a mix of different environments, I have a bunch on Azure cloud, a few workloads on AWS and a few…
asked 2022-10-26T02:25:29.747+00:00
Razzi29
331
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commented 2022-10-31T13:21:43.627+00:00
Stanislav Zhelyazkov
21,931
Reputation points MVP
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Update Management Center
Hello Team, I hope you're doing fine, I'm working on a new project to apply automatically Patches to our Windows-Linux VMs For now, most of VMs are created with the option "Automatic by OS", Patches are installed automatically on…
asked 2022-10-27T10:58:44.06+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali
1,131
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answered 2022-10-28T06:20:55.95+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Update Management Center - Exclude Drivers
Is there anyway to exclude drivers from being installed? You can miss them out by adding in the KB IDs of all the other updates but there's no way to just exclude the drivers
asked 2022-10-18T10:06:21.77+00:00
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Matt9300
31
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answered 2022-10-18T16:01:30.587+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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In Azure update when doing deployment cant find machines via tags
Im trying to put my groups and schedules together. I have tagged my machines. Now these machines are primarily on-prem which updating has been working fine WHEN I select every computer separately. Now I want to schedule and do this by tag. It will not…
asked 2022-09-20T14:13:32.997+00:00
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Shicara Smith
1
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answered 2022-10-18T09:42:04.253+00:00
Matt9300
31
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Patching solution in Azure
I have multiple clients servers on Azure. Can anyone point me in the right direction around patching Azure VMs. Currently we're using Azure update management to deploy patches to VMs. Our another on-prem environment already have SCCM based patching…
asked 2022-10-12T10:12:50.773+00:00
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Deep Parikh
1
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answered 2022-10-12T19:08:57.16+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
3 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Azure ARC patch management best practices
Hi, we want to use azure arc to patch our on premise machines, but this feature is still in preview. Looks like we cannot really control updates. So what is the best practices to patch our sensitive servers? Use Azure Arc just for…
asked 2022-09-26T13:06:30.26+00:00
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appwiz.cpl
21
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accepted 2022-09-29T11:52:11.633+00:00
appwiz.cpl
21
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Azure ARC servers installing updates, when they are not part of a maintenance plan.
We have had a serious issue with Azure ARC servers installing updates, when they are not part of a maintenance plan. Their local WindowsUpdate.log indicates that the AzureHybrid worker client service is triggering the installations. We have been…
asked 2022-09-18T22:37:34.193+00:00
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David
1
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commented 2022-09-26T22:48:22.79+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Enable update management using arm template
Hello. I have arm template to deploy azure vm. I have to enable update management for vm using this arm template. Could you help me and give me advise how I can do it with my current arm template?
asked 2022-09-16T07:19:46.183+00:00
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Roman Kolbnev
1
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answered 2022-09-16T17:59:44.007+00:00
Maxim Sergeev
6,566
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
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Updatemanagement in Automation Account doesn't work anymore when vnet is routed to an Azure Firewall
Hi, I have a strange problem and would like to ask for support. I have an updatemanagement scheduled in an Azure Automation Account for linux and windows VMs. The updatemanagement works fine. I have recently created an Azure firewall and routed…
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