How to install windows azure VM agent on all the VM's hosted on azure instaed of manual installation

Question

Hi Everyone,

I have too many VM's running with windows OS on azure but its really painful & time taking to update the windows azure agent manually. Is there a way to update the windows azure agent from portal.

Note : VM's are created (source) from DISK not from market place

Answer 1

Hi @AzureisMyCareer-5423.

I am providing additional documentation that provide information on how to Install the Azure Virtual Machine Agent in offline mode - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines/install-vm-agent-offline

If you can RDP to the VM, you just need to download and install the VM Agent manually.

You can download MSI installer to use for deployment - https://github.com/Azure/WindowsVMAgent/releases

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Best regards,

Answer 2

HI @AzureisMyCareer-5423,

As per the documentation, if you have manually provisioned the VMs (not from the Marketplace) you will have to manually upgrade the Azure VM agents:

Upgrade the VM Agent
The Azure VM Agent for Windows is automatically upgraded on images deployed from the Azure marketplace. As new VMs are deployed to Azure, they receive the latest VM agent at VM provision time. If you have installed the agent manually or are deploying custom VM images you will need to manually update to include the new VM agent at image creation time.

Reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/agent-windows#upgrade-the-vm-agent

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Best regards,
Leon