Scheduling Options for on-prem Arc-Enabled Servers

Bryan Dam 30 Reputation points
2024-10-11T20:31:55.55+00:00

I've been testing AUM recently and trying to understand the docs around this.

The 'Update options and orchestration in Azure Update Manager' doc (here) states:
"For Azure Arc-enabled servers, the updates and maintenance options such as automatic VM guest patching in Azure, Windows automatic updates, and hot patching aren't supported."

The actual AUM UI for assigning Patch Orchestration has the following note: "Patch orchestration is not applicable to Arc-enabled servers."

So ... what exactly ... are my patch scheduling options for Arc-Enabled servers that are not Azure VMs? Now, I wouldn't expect things like VM Guest patching to work but if the built in Windows Automatic Updates is not supported AND creating an AUM schedule (patch orchestration) is not supported ... then what the heck IS supported in these scenarios? Nothing?

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  1. Stanislav Zhelyazkov 24,611 Reputation points MVP
    2024-10-14T05:49:15.17+00:00

    Hi,

    Guest Patching via Azure Update Manager is supported for Arc servers. What is not supported is all other options. What that means? It means you cannot configure any of the other options via the Arc server Azure resource. You are still able to use those options within the VM where applicable. For example, you can login to the Arc server and configure Windows Update settings on Windows Server but you are not able to configure that via the settings on the Arc server resources. Note that Azure VMs have two guest patching options: one is that is controlled by Azure and it is done automatically without you having to configure maintenance windows and the other is by using Azure Update Manager and configuring maintenance windows.

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